As part of our life-cycle approach to sustainability, we work to improve the environmental, social and economic impacts "upstream" of our own manufacturing plants, including the impacts of transportation and logistics and the activities of our thousands of global suppliers. We work with our suppliers in a variety of ways to manage the impacts that occur when they provide us with goods and services.
In this section we discuss how we manage materials throughout our supply chain, our strategies to improve the logistics of parts transportation and packaging, and our other supply chain sustainability efforts.