overview of what we are doing with Tesco

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 Tesco, Asda-Walmart,
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 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.
It is also a resource for hundreds of Tesco staff and
partners like WRAP, IGD and the Carbon Trust.
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.
“We’ve pledged to reduce the carbon footprint of the
products we sell by 30% by 2020. To do this we need to
work with all of our suppliers and the Tesco Knowledge
Hub provides an excellent way for us all to learn more,
and to share best practice.”
- John Scouler, Commercial Director, Tesco
The Hub was a key factor in Tesco being named top retailer for carbon reporting and
performance by the Carbon Disclosure Project in 2010.
The project was then recognized with a Gigaton Award for outstanding carbon
reductions and sustainability performance. For its collaboration with suppliers on
the Knowledge Hub and overall strategy,
Tesco won the Grocer Gold Award
2012 for ‘Green Retailer of the Year’. “ [The Hub is] not just a bit of IT, or the bit of
Hear what makes the Hub so infrastructure that you import… but real peo-
interesting in a short video interview ple with knowledge and commitment, who
with Helen Fleming, shape what’s on the Hub, who help people
Climate Change Director at Tesco. 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. ”
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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.
“Sustainability means responsibility – working collaboratively and in partnership is part
of the solution. The Asda Exchange offers a two-way conversation with our supply chain,
allowing us to work more collaboratively and efficiently with our valued suppliers.”
- Julian Walker Palin, Head of Corporate Sustainability, Asda
Some other 2degrees client projects:
The Asda Sustain & Save Exchange is a private online space for 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. Since 2011 the Exchange has enabled
Asda and its suppliers to benchmark resource efficiency in 3 product categories, representing
$5bn of sales.
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