Buying for the Future: Contract Management and the Environmental Challenge

Calling greening the supply chain "the next urgent step for corporate social responsibility," it walks users through the tools and techniques for integrating environmental criteria in a large, institutional procurement program, from corporate policies, to contractual issues, to community relations. Lyons, head of purchasing at Rutgers University, knows his stuff, and presents it in an easy-to-digest format: lots of lists, bulleted points, and hands-on tips. Lyons relies heavily on his own experiences, but does a good job of including other types of organizational buyers.