Sep 18, 2008 : Verizon, GXS Make Green Efforts
📅 - Telecommunications provider Verizon Business (verizonbusiness.com) and on-demand supply chain management provider GXS (gxs.com) announced on Thursday they are delivering business-to-business e-commerce solutions that contribute to ecological efforts.
GXS and Verizon Business say that their joint supply chain management solutions offering enables businesses to securely and seamlessly convert manual, paper-based processes into automated electronic transactions among vendors, partners and customers, reducing the use of paper and making business transactions more efficient.
The companies will discuss this process of automating the supply chain to achieve green benefits on Thursday at the Computerworld Green IT Symposium (greenitsymposium.com) in National Harbor, Maryland.
Supply chain automation offers many benefits including significantly reducing the need for paper-based transactions, since electronic documents are sent via GXS Trading Grid, the company's global B2B integration services platform powered by Verizon Business' Managed Network Services.
Since GXS processes more than four billion electronic transactions per year on behalf of its customers, the process will save 223 million pounds of CO2, 912,000 trees, 1.5 trillion BTUs of total energy consumption, and 745 million gallons of water a year.
The companies say there is even potential for further environmental benefits if each of the estimated 40 billion B2B transactions performed worldwide each year were automated.
"Supply chain benchmarking is becoming a very real focus for multinational corporations wanting to understand their overall environmental impact," says Mike Marcellin, vice president of product marketing for Verizon Business. "Verizon Supply Chain Managed Services are helping companies to work smarter and do business better and more securely across an extended enterprise of suppliers, partners, customers and employees, while also enabling them to reduce their carbon footprint."
In addition to environmental benefits, supply chain automation also produces significant financial savings for customers, with automation leading to savings of 60 percent or more.
Both GXS and Verizon Business have also made individual efforts to reduce their own energy consumption and carbon output.
GXS has invested more than $150 million in upgrading its global data centers to include an energy-efficient blade-server architecture that reduces power consumption by at least 60 percent, as well as a new clean-burning diesel generator for back-up and fewer processors to reduce cooling costs. The company also joined the Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders Program (epa.gov/stateply/partners/index.html) to establish long-term emissions reduction goals.
Verizon Business consumes considerably less energy than the older technologies it replaced. The network uses bandwidth more efficiently, reduces network equipment and management costs, requires less electricity to operate and cool.
GXS and Verizon Business say that their joint supply chain management solutions offering enables businesses to securely and seamlessly convert manual, paper-based processes into automated electronic transactions among vendors, partners and customers, reducing the use of paper and making business transactions more efficient.
The companies will discuss this process of automating the supply chain to achieve green benefits on Thursday at the Computerworld Green IT Symposium (greenitsymposium.com) in National Harbor, Maryland.
Supply chain automation offers many benefits including significantly reducing the need for paper-based transactions, since electronic documents are sent via GXS Trading Grid, the company's global B2B integration services platform powered by Verizon Business' Managed Network Services.
Since GXS processes more than four billion electronic transactions per year on behalf of its customers, the process will save 223 million pounds of CO2, 912,000 trees, 1.5 trillion BTUs of total energy consumption, and 745 million gallons of water a year.
The companies say there is even potential for further environmental benefits if each of the estimated 40 billion B2B transactions performed worldwide each year were automated.
"Supply chain benchmarking is becoming a very real focus for multinational corporations wanting to understand their overall environmental impact," says Mike Marcellin, vice president of product marketing for Verizon Business. "Verizon Supply Chain Managed Services are helping companies to work smarter and do business better and more securely across an extended enterprise of suppliers, partners, customers and employees, while also enabling them to reduce their carbon footprint."
In addition to environmental benefits, supply chain automation also produces significant financial savings for customers, with automation leading to savings of 60 percent or more.
Both GXS and Verizon Business have also made individual efforts to reduce their own energy consumption and carbon output.
GXS has invested more than $150 million in upgrading its global data centers to include an energy-efficient blade-server architecture that reduces power consumption by at least 60 percent, as well as a new clean-burning diesel generator for back-up and fewer processors to reduce cooling costs. The company also joined the Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders Program (epa.gov/stateply/partners/index.html) to establish long-term emissions reduction goals.
Verizon Business consumes considerably less energy than the older technologies it replaced. The network uses bandwidth more efficiently, reduces network equipment and management costs, requires less electricity to operate and cool.
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