Sustainable Business
Essays

Procter and Gamble (NYSE:PG) is the world's leading producer and marketer of consumer packaged goods (CPG), healthcare products and healthcare services globally. In its latest full fiscal year, P&G generated $82.5B in Sales and attained a Net Income of $11.7B. The company's products are sold in 180 countries through a variety of multichannel-based strategies that include mass merchandising, grocery, and membership club stores. It's command of the retailing markets are formidable given the strength and depth of its global supply chain and continual new product development processes (Chen-Lung, Sheu, 2007). The company is organized into two Global Business Units (GBU), the first being Beauty and Grooming and the second being Household Care. P&G is also considered to be one of the best brand management companies globally with 27 of the best-selling brands in the CPG industry part of their portfolio. On average 15% of total sales are from Wal-Mart in any given year and the company is a leader in collaborative planning forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) and adoption fo the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) pilots WalMart has created with its top 100 suppliers (Chen-Lung, Sheu, 2007).

Fundamental objective of this study is to provide business plan for System Software Technology. The organization intends to launch new innovative software in the market that will serve multiple functions for the small and medium business organizations. The proposed software is Systemic Financial88 ERP. The new product would make the company to record $1.03 million in sales in the first year, and $3.7 million in the third year. The net profit in the first year would also be $85,830 and the profit would increase by 10.06% in the second year and by 13.91% in the third year.

This globalized business environment in which companies must develop their activity determines them to find innovative solutions in order to create competitive advantage. In order to reach this objective it does not suffice to focus on low prices and high quality. Customers, the authorities and communities expect these companies to become more active in different sectors. Therefore, companies must increase their efforts and investments in supporting environmental causes.

The Introduction section of the paper discusses important issues regarding sustainability performance reporting. The paper continues with the Sustainability Performance Reporting that focuses on discussing some of the most important financial metrics that companies use their sustainability performance reports to stakeholders. The Conclusions section summarizes important aspects regarding the subject of the Sustainability Performance Reporting paper.

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