Are Green Supply Chains Becoming the Norm?

Early last year, results of a study completed by IFS, an ERP technology provider, revealed that "almost 77 percent of manufactures [...] said they are currently required by their customers to report on their environmental impact and that of their products or require their vendors to do so."

More recently, Apple released a "Progress Report" that detailed its supply chain practices, and then distributed it among its suppliers.

Are green supply chains becoming the norm? Perhaps they're not yet the norm, but if more companies like Apple were to release the details of their supply chain processes, one can only assume that more suppliers, partners, and competitors would feel compelled to do the same, and, more importantly, that they would be compelled to run greener supply chains.