As purchasing professionals become increasingly
attentive to environmental regulations, they
have begun to perform environmental compliance
audits to review applicable environmental regulations,
identify new restrictions, and evaluate how
environmental initiatives help their companies
conform to evolving regulatory guidelines. More
than half (57.8 percent) of the respondents to this
survey indicated that their company had an environmental
auditing program. On the other hand,
only 31.9 percent of the respondents include a supplier’s
environmental commitment as part of their
supplier quality assurance criteria