Overview of what we are doing with Asda-Walmart

1. Enterprise Services
Work efficiently with suppliers, customers and colleagues to reduce
costs and environmental impacts – at scale.
2degrees delivers award-winning services to leading organisations such as Asda-Walmart, Tesco,
GlaxoSmithKline and Kingfisher. We help them to achieve their goals for operational improvements and
resource efficiency.
Our bespoke technology, people and processes help them to work closely with hundreds and thousands of
their suppliers, colleagues and customers. This enables quick identification and realization of opportunities in
their value chains to reduce cost, energy, carbon, water and waste, and to share best practice and experience,
and so solve common business problems together.
The Asda Sustain & Save Exchange on
2degrees is a private online community of Asda
employees and suppliers, built to improve resource
efficiency in energy, waste and water.
There are 130 members from 72 companies, with
median operating costs of $130 million.
A tailored activity plan identifies collaborative
projects to implement practical changes and
deliver cost savings in the supplier categories.
“The Sustain & Save Exchange is an important Asda
programme. We want to work together with our
supplier partners so we can learn from each other to
increase our efficiencies and increase our resilience to
the growing challenges of resource scarcity. At Asda, we
want to build a world class supply base for the future,
so we’ll be working with the most proactive suppliers on
this agenda to explore how we will continue to support each other for the future. For us, sustainability isn’t about reinventing
the wheel – it’s just what we do. It’s also part of what Walmart – our global family does. And when you are part of the biggest
retailer in the world, you have an opportunity – and a responsibility – to make a difference.”
- Barry Williams, Food Trading Director, Asda-Walmart
Supplier resource efficiency is benchmarked to identify opportunities for
improvement, whilst keeping supplier identities anonymous.
Since 2011 the Exchange has enabled Asda and its suppliers to benchmark
resource efficiency in 3 product
categories, representing $5bn of sales.
“Sustainability means responsibility – working
Find out more about the Exchange collaboratively and in partnership is part of the
in a short video of Julian Walker-Palin, solution. The Asda Exchange offers a two-way
Head of Corporate Sustainability, Asda conversation with our supply chain, allowing
introducing suppliers to their private us to work more collaboratively and efficiently
space on 2degrees. with our valued suppliers.”
or at Tesco.
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2. The Benefits of working with 2degrees Enterprise Services
• An efficient way of identifying and sharing the most effective means to reduce costs and improve
environmental performance within your own secure, private online space
• A cost-effective way to engage people such as suppliers, customers or colleagues to achieve targets for
efficiency and sustainability performance
• Provides a means to have an effective ongoing dialogue with hundreds or thousands of organisations at
the same time, to share knowledge and solve problems together
• Drives a continuous business improvement programme, in which companies are encouraged to become
more efficient based on proven best practice
• Empowers people to make things happen
• Measures the impact on business performance against your targets or an external standard
Enterprise Services customers and their stakeholders can also access the knowledge
and experience of the 2degrees Community, with tens of thousands of members
in over 100 countries as well as the 2degrees Marketplace of sustainable business
solution providers.
“ [The Hub is] not just a bit of IT, or the bit of infrastructure that you import… but real
people with knowledge and commitment, who shape what’s on the Hub, who help
people come on board, find out what they want, really understand how people are
going to use it; and then guide the offer to those people. “
Helen Fleming, Climate Director at Tesco.
Some other 2degrees client projects:
The Tesco Knowledge Hub on 2degrees is the world’s largest supply chain collaboration, providing
an engagement platform for Tesco’s top 1000 suppliers from over 20 countries. The collaboration
helps to reduce the energy costs, waste and environmental impacts of the products Tesco buys,
and aims to cut 30% of the carbon emissions from the supply chain by 2020.
The Kingfisher Exchange is enabling five Kingfisher operating companies in seven different
countries to work more effectively together to achieve significant cost reductions and efficiency
gains across their international property portfolio. By constantly sharing productivity and
sustainability knowledge, they anticipate seven figure efficiency savings over the next two years.
The GSK Sustainability Exchange is an important resource for GlaxoSmithKline colleagues to
accelerate their understanding of environmental sustainability best practice. It is also a private,
managed space in which GSK manufacturing teams can share practical solutions and techniques
to help them meet a £100,000,000 savings target by 2020.
To explore how 2degrees could help you achieve your business objectives
email Tom.Mansel@2degreesnetwork.com or call on 01865 597 640