As the general basis, the Company Policy requires ecological responsibility expressing INPACS' commitment "to minimising its environmental footprint". 

On INPACS head office level, this reduction target is managed according to the ISO 14001 standard  requirements and controlled following the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard. The here considered resources can be impacted directly by INPACS, but at the same time have a relatively insignificant leverage power regarding the increase in resource efficiency, due to the small office operation.

Therefore, INPACS has set a strategic focus on a rather indirect, but much more impactful leverage point: its market role. To effectively use its global sphere of influence to develop and promote resource-saving business models, the following goals have been set (cf. criterion 3 and 7): In order to save resources and emissions, we aim to make a contribution to the reduction of waste generation – and our greatest area of impact is our customer. Therefore, we extended our view on the customers’ value chain to the crucial stage of waste disposal.

Here, the relevant strategic measures are:

1. Create a Sustainable Program for our Customers: We develop a Sustainability Analysis along the customers’ value chain. The sustainability program is scheduling an implementation of version 1.0 by 2020, whereby the first pilot already enables the customer consultancy regarding the

• customers' product consumption/ procurement portfolio on the basis of sustainability attributes,
• usage of electronic ordering and invoicing,
• CO₂ emissions per delivery as well as
• Waste amount per waste category (cf. criterion 10). 

2. Develop a Sustainable Range: In order to better influence sustainable consumption and production, we enhance our sustainable range with appropriate concepts and service. The following milestones have been reached in the reporting period 2019 as a basic requirement for further effective measures: 

• Cooperation initiation with waste management company in order to raise awareness for circularity within network, conduct reality-testing of biodegradable products and develop disposal concepts for our customers
• Development of an INPACS Packaging Guideline as well as a catalogue of relevant product criteria to enable a harmonized and targeted sustainable procurement as well as customer consultation

3. Initiate a Sustainability School: To take the journey together with our members, employees, customers and suppliers, internal and external knowledge building is a basic requirement and shall be facilitated through a web-based interactive Sustainability Knowledge Platform. An associated pilot project is planned for 2020.

The core of this new approach is the cooperative connection of all stakeholders and creation of transparency on all levels along global wholesale value chains – minimizing the material risks of high resource intensity and high transport CO₂ emissions on account of our globally traded product range.