Supply Chain Management
Integrating sustainability into your supply chain is an area most businesses are grappling with. This task is not just about creating a low carbon supply chain but also about a number of wider sustainability risks and opportunities that may come into play and impact your business.
Getting carbon out of your suppliers, partners and vendor’s products is a crucial way of reducing your scope 3 emissions and reducing your overall carbon footprint. You also need to consider the environmental, social, biodiversity and climate risks.
Traceability and verification throughout your supply chain is also vitally important. You need to ensure the goods you purchase and use have the appropriate certifications and meet the required sustainability standards. Often major corporates take the blame for poor supplier practices. This could impact upon your brand and reputation, customers, quality, compliance, litigation, stakeholder confidence and finances. Can you fully verify your supply chain and do you have the right programmes in place to gain a competitive advantage?
Spotting the right signals, collecting the right data, engaging with your supply chain and making the right decisions are not straight forward. We live in an interconnected world and our actions, including the actions and decisions taken along the supply chain, can and will impact your business. This is not a tick-box exercise but a complex and collaborative way of doing business.
We can help you with:
- Supply chain risk assessment
- Data collection and software solutions
- Supply chain engagement programmes
- Supplier environmental policy and supplier terms and conditions
- Traceability and certification
- Supplier training
- Consumer engagement