جوائز GEC Catalyst لعام 2017

At PG&E we measure our own environmental impacts and compliance performance. As a result of these initiatives, we identify operational efficiencies, realize cost savings and engage our customers, employees, and suppliers in the benefits of environmental stewardship. We expect our suppliers to have similar programs and goals. As part of our supplier engagement, we educate suppliers on the importance of establishing an environmental management system (EMS), tracking their environmental impacts, setting improvement goals, and reporting their performance publicly. The mechanism for gathering these details is the annual supplier sustainability survey completed in our membership with the Electric Utility Industry Sustainable Supply Chain Alliance (Alliance). PG&E was a founding member of the Alliance in 2008 and one of the first members to create a scorecard methodology based on the survey responses for use in supplier evaluations. The questions of the survey are based on the Alliance environmental framework and have a system in which the answers build in maturity. This is provides a learning tool with which the suppliers can assess their own performance and clearly see what is needed to progress their efforts in the most impactful way. The responses to the survey are quantified and used in the supplier’s annual scorecard assessment which factors many key performance metrics including quality, performance, supplier diversity, and sustainability. Suppliers are given a score based on a 5 point scale. PG&E sets a corporate goal every year to have a percentage of suppliers achieve a score of 3 or better. The environmental performance standards help us to gauge the significance that suppliers are placing in their effort to minimize their environmental impacts. Economic and Market Impact Since implementation of the supplier environmental management standards, PG&E has seen year over year improvement in supplier performance. Annually about one hundred suppliers are surveyed. In 2013, our goal was to have 55{3ece50fbde785bce8da219b98877ed03d92d3806d3cdcc9235244f22f59048e6} of the suppliers surveyed achieve a score of 3 or better. The goal was exceeded and we have had increasing goals ever since. In 2016, the goal was 70{3ece50fbde785bce8da219b98877ed03d92d3806d3cdcc9235244f22f59048e6} and we achieved 75{3ece50fbde785bce8da219b98877ed03d92d3806d3cdcc9235244f22f59048e6}. This means each year, more of our top tier suppliers are realizing the importance of measuring, goal setting, and publicly reporting their environmental impact results and implementing or maintaining systems to do so. Challenges Some of the challenges we have experience throughout the implementation and execution of this program include:  the need for continuous supplier engagement and training,  minimizing supplier touch points, and  overcoming the “one size fits all” survey hurdle. Each challenge has been tackled separately, but all with consideration of the supplier in mind. We provide full transparency into the survey execution, scorecard results, and our program actions. This ensures that the supplier is aware of how their responses will be used and how they can improve their performance over time. Program Milestones In 2016, we broadened the scope of the suppliers surveyed to include a number of our diverse suppliers. This was an effort to prepare them for what would be expected of them should they become a top tier supplier as well as to educate them on how to improve their environmental performance. Each year, we strive to have improvement in the percent of suppliers achieving a score of 3 or better. In 2017 we aim to have 75{3ece50fbde785bce8da219b98877ed03d92d3806d3cdcc9235244f22f59048e6} of top tier suppliers perform at this level.