Through our new GreenGov Supply Chain Partnership, Federal suppliers can agree to voluntarily measure, reduce, and report their greenhouse gas emissions to help GSA design an incentive-based approach to developing contracting advantages for companies that share our sustainability goals.

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Same-store sales growth is an important measure to gauge the performance of a restaurant chain since it includes only the restaurants opened for at least a year and excludes the newly opened (and closed) restaurants, sales of which might be unusually low or high.

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Agrium gets a measure of revenue stability from its profitable and growing chain of retail centers, which sell fertilizer, seeds and other ag products directly to farmers.

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Our closest aggregate measure of demand for the FSC products is the demand for Chain of Custody certificates, required of companies processing certified wood and fiber for products taken to retail markets with the logo.

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What is new is that as manufacturing companies pursue these goals in an increasingly globalized supply chain, they need vastly improved information to design, plan, execute and measure operations across a complex and varied environment.

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"Unless we take the necessary steps to measure and reduce the amount of methane escaping from the entire supply chain, natural gas engines could very well be worse for our climate than diesel, " Krupp told the truck industry summit.

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Greenpeace asks companies to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life cycle of their products: supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, customer use, and end-of-life, using a combination of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy policy advocacy.

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