Alliance initiatives stem from the Alliance’s strategic planning process. A summary of the strategic palling process is the Strategic Framework.

Strategic Framework

Alliance initiatives for 2015-2018 include:

Supply Chain Operations – To encourage the sustainability of the members’ own supply chain operations the Alliance commits to achieving the following by 2018, each member will improve by one (1) maturity level in three (3) years.

Products and Services – To lead the electric utility industry in the establishment of a sustainable supply chain the Alliance will do the following between 2015 and 2018:

• The Alliance commits to produce at least one (1) additional commodity best practice document per year through 2018.
• 75% of members will adopt and document the benefits from at least one (1) new practice per relevant commodity document, within two (2) years of its release.

Supplier Performance – To continue and accelerate our support of suppliers in the area of sustainability performance, the Alliance commits to achieving the following by 2018:

• 100% of members participating in the Annual Supplier Sustainability Survey incorporate the results into their supplier relationships.

Communication and Engagement – To track our progress in this critical area the Alliance has set the following goals:

• To continually release materials (at least 3 per year) to educate stakeholders on the value and mechanisms to adopt sustainable practices through standards, white papers, thought pieces, etc.
• To support the broader adoption of Alliance identified practices by speaking at 4 external events per year.
• As a measure of our growing influence we aim to increase traffic to our website by 20% per year between 2015 and 2018