Financial incentives cannot alone guarantee environmental success of CMS
because they may not have been strong enough to compensate for the traditional
distribution of responsibility
• Knowledge of CMS suppliers might not have been better than the customer’s
knowledge of the usage phase
An additional explanation could be that the indexed indicators chosen are not sufficient
to monitor the environmental performance of chemical management. To
account for this possibility, development of other performance indicators and measuring
tools is necessary. Hence, further research on what indicators have been used
in other CMS evaluations is needed.