Short video/transcript excerpt describing MillerKnoll’s (formerly Herman Miller) long-standing commitment to sustainability and the company’s recent move from spreadsheet-based carbon management to Salesforce’s Net Zero Cloud to track energy use and greenhouse gas emissions more efficiently. The speaker emphasizes design-driven problem-solving, company values alignment with Salesforce, and the visibility and near-real-time management benefits of the platform.
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There's not that many companies that make it to their hundredth birthday. DJ Dupree stated that Herman Miller, she'll be a good steward of the earth's resources. You know, those statements in and of themselves are pretty pedestrian today. But if you look at the context and the timing when they were set back in 1953, people weren't thinking like that. I like to say I think about sustainability with a capital S. It includes environmental sustainability and the impact that our products or business has on the environment. We're design driven organizations, right. And design solves problems. Sustainability is just another problem that we have to solve for. I think it's back to this idea that at Miller Knoll we do what's right, not what's easy. I think one of the hardest parts of pushing this rock of sustainability up the hill. We had previously been working to manage our carbon footprint through spreadsheets. It's hard to believe, but you know what, you can manage a 2 1/2 plus billion dollar company with Excel. When we had the opportunity to leverage a software platform designed to do that versus having a 20,000 long line item spreadsheet, my team was pretty excited. We're a Salesforce customer. We use Salesforce products to manage our business. We've been transitioning our data over to the Net Zero Cloud platform. Net Zero Cloud allows us to very efficiently track and manage our energy usage and our carbon footprint across the globe. Having visibility into our carbon emissions is a game changer. We can start to make that visible through a product like Net Zero Cloud and then we can start to manage that on almost a real time basis. So you can course correct when you're off track. That's the power of the tool is now what was invisible is visible. The connection between Miller, Nolan and Salesforce. It works because we've got common set of values. All of those things coupled together are what we're trying to work on to use our business as a force for good across the planet from an environmental and a social perspective.
