A recent survey by IDC finds that even the smallest businesses are starting to take green initiatives to heart, especially when it comes to adopting IT applications that will make it easier to reduce the environmental impact of their supply chains.

The survey, which is part of a larger report from IDC called the AppStat Survey, asked 250 decision-makers at small- to medium-sized businesses about what software applications their companies are using to gauge, analyze and improve their operations, and found that U.S. manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors of all sizes are taking the most innovative technologies on board to achieve results.

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