Sustainable Operations Report 2022

Sustainable Operations II

INTRODUCTION 3
TASK 1- Report on Findings.......................................................................................... 3
TASK 2- Summary of Key Findings................................................................................4
CONCLUSION.......................................................................................................... 5
REFERENCES........................................................................................................... 6

INTRODUCTION
Benchmarking is defined as practice to compare performance metrics as well as
process of business from their competitors (De, Choudhary & Tiwari, 2017). This mainly
measure quality, cost and time. It is very important for business to set benchmarking in order
to become sustainable leader at competitive marketplace. The given report is based on Cober
Solutions which is printing industry that provide different products like newspaper,
stationery, business cards and service includes book binding, book repairing and others. The
competitor of Cober Solutions is minuteman press which has set benchmark for
sustainability. The main aim of this report is to provide recommendation to Cober Solutions
to follow three main KPIs such as waste, water and energy.
TASK 1- Report on Findings
Cober Solutions has to focus on different Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for
setting benchmark in terms of sustainability in order to beat with competitors. Some of them
are recommended in context of competitors which are described below:
Waste
For waste reduction, different practices or benchmark has been set by authority which
should be adopted by printing industry in proper manner (Dubey & et. al., 2015). The policy
made by Sustainable Paper and Printing identifies about using of recycled content paper
(RCP) as well as other elements such as harvested wood, process of chlorine and many more.
This practice helps to set benchmark for other organisation to minimize waste and maximize
profits. Copying as well as printing policies identifies about procedures which helps in
reducing usage of paper. There are some recommendations to respective business regarding
waste minimization such as:
 RCP is referred as paper which contains 30% post user recycled matter but on other
hand, it contains 100% RCP (Paper Reduction and Sustainable Printing, 2015).
 The buying of RCP leads to save environments in different aspects.
 RCP contains less usage of toxic chemicals as well as low bleaching rather than virgin
papers.
 There is production of approx 300 million tons of paper which consumes 300 million
forested area that contain large amounts of energy, chemicals, water and pesticides. In
this aspects, there should be less consumption of papers to reduce environmental
impacts and keep surrounding cleans.
 The reduction of paper use leads to support non-renewable industry in best manner.
Water
This is another baseline of sustainability KPI’s which helps Cober Solution to become
sustainable leader and set benchmark for others (Grant, Trautrims & Wong, 2017). Printing
industry has to follow several practices to minimize use of water which helps in saving