Building a Sustainable Supply Chain
Sustainable Supply Chain
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Working with you and your suppliers to drive sustainability.
Our data-driven methodology enables a sustainable supply chain transformation, resulting in a demonstrable increase in resilience, a quantifiable reduction in environmental and social risk, and the generation of measurable positive impact. By partnering with your organisation and its suppliers, we facilitate a structured program to drive performance improvements and track progress against key sustainability metrics.
We deliver bespoke sustainability strategies, prioritising material impact areas aligned with your business objectives. Our approach focuses on key dimensions, including human rights, climate risk, circular economy and resilience, social impact, pollution mitigation, nature and biodiversity preservation, and water stewardship, ensuring a holistic and integrated sustainability transformation.
Four Pillars
People
- Health, safety and well-being
- Talent attraction, engagement and retention
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Environment
- Climate change, energy and emissions
- Water management
- Waste, chemicals and product lifecycle management
Society
- Value creation and distribution
- Strategic sourcing
Business Sustainability
- Innovation management
- Value chain resilience
- Customer engagement and quality standards
- Financial resilience
Our Four-Step Approach
Collaborating Throughout With Key Stakeholders
1. Set Sustainable Supply Chain Objectives
- Agree scope of works
- Benchmark vs peers
- Understand context, transparency (sourcing), map & policy
- Segment supply chain and determine material questions
- Use internal and external resources to spot desktop risks
2. Survey and Determine Risk Scores & Measures
- Collect supply chain data via survey
- Assess relevance, severity and likelihood – scale, scope and ability to mitigate
- Assign geographic and sector-specific risk
- Collaboration toolbox with suppliers to tackle risks – manage lower-tier suppliers through suppliers
3. Setup ESG Risk Centre of Excellence
- Identify current approach for ESG risk management
- Define and embed ESG into Operating model – capabilities, governance, technology
- Establish centre of excellence and collaborate with stakeholders in ecosystem
- Training and development of people
4. Manage, Monitor, Audit & Drive Value
- Define structure inc. roles and team sizing for key sustainability personnel
- ESG standards of excellence, deploy tools for management
- Strategic and board-level decisions to optimise supply chain for ESG with roadmap
- Test & validate – aligned with company goals, robust & reinforcing
Let us Introduce Ourselves
To find your nearest office or get in touch with one of our specialist advisors to see how we can help your business, please go to our contact page.