Comments on: So You Are Not a Fortune 500 Company: How Green Must You Be? http://earth911.com/blog/2008/01/23/so-you-are-not-a-fortune-500-company-how-green-must-you-be/ Make Everyday Earth Day Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:33:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: shipwire http://earth911.com/blog/2008/01/23/so-you-are-not-a-fortune-500-company-how-green-must-you-be/#comment-8922 shipwire Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:02:08 +0000 http://earth911.com/blog/2008/01/23/so-you-are-not-a-fortune-500-company-how-green-must-you-be/#comment-8922 With many businesses looking for green best business practices, Shipwire decided to evaluate how our services help e-tailers reduce their carbon footprint. We have written a blog about green shipping & storage solutions with 5 suggested action items. Here's an excerpt from our blog: "When it comes to the delivery of merchandise, the total carbon footprint is roughly equivalent to how much fuel it takes to get your products where they need to be. The more efficient the shipping is, the smaller the footprint, and the cheaper the shipping cost." "Just as Fortune 500 companies no longer fulfill all their orders from one central warehouse, now small merchandisers can plug into national warehouse networks—cutting their costs and carbon footprint by increasing efficiency and bringing inventory closer to customers." To read the whole article, please visit: http://forums.shipwire.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=25 Shipwire works with growing Web merchants and helps them optimize their supply chain by plugging their Web store into our Growing Warehouse Network. We offer a storage and shipping solution that can be added to most any web store to allow a merchant to outsource their order fulfillment. http://www.shipwire.com With many businesses looking for green best business practices, Shipwire decided to evaluate how our services help e-tailers reduce their carbon footprint. We have written a blog about green shipping & storage solutions with 5 suggested action items.

Here’s an excerpt from our blog:
“When it comes to the delivery of merchandise, the total carbon footprint is roughly equivalent to how much fuel it takes to get your products where they need to be. The more efficient the shipping is, the smaller the footprint, and the cheaper the shipping cost.”

“Just as Fortune 500 companies no longer fulfill all their orders from one central warehouse, now small merchandisers can plug into national warehouse networks—cutting their costs and carbon footprint by increasing efficiency and bringing inventory closer to customers.”

To read the whole article, please visit: http://forums.shipwire.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=25

Shipwire works with growing Web merchants and helps them optimize their supply chain by plugging their Web store into our Growing Warehouse Network. We offer a storage and shipping solution that can be added to most any web store to allow a merchant to outsource their order fulfillment.
http://www.shipwire.com

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