The Strategy is designed to significantly improve our environmental footprint. We are clear that the levers for change are located in our actual business processes. So the Environmental Strategy team reviewed how we work and identified four focal areas to be targeted by 2015 to ensure we make a difference across the whole value chain. These are:
Management processes, covering best practice guidance, tools and key performance indicators (KPIs) to track environmental performance across all functions and brands. These processes ensure that the Strategy is coherent and that the targets complement each other.
Product excellence, embedding environmental aspects into our innovation projects within each brand where the product innovation and design takes place. Overall ambitions are to reduce complexity and create sustainable products and packaging.
Process excellence, implementing and tracking environmental improvements across our value chain, such as energy savings in the supply chain and in our stores.
Support processes, aligning all environmental initiatives through the support functions such as HR, IT and Corporate Communications and bringing the Strategy to all our employees.
The illustration below shows where across the value chain these four focal areas can help us improve our environmental performance.