Sustainability

A report on sustainability initiatives that go back six years.

Courtney Wright, chief procurement officer of Veolia North America, named the largest U.S. environmental services company by Engineering News-Record, talks about how procurement is driving sustainability and how procurement plays a crucial role in supporting Veolia's mission of reducing their CO2 emissions.

A circular approach to sustainability challenges how organizations currently approach supplier interactions, sourcing materials, product lifecycles, recycling (downcycling and upcycling), and business models.

Operationalizing Climate and Social Goals in Supply Chain Operations is a must-read report for supply chain, procurement, finance, and other business leaders who are looking to enhance environmental, social, and governance performance.

As a Kinaxis company, MPO highlights how businesses can activate supply chain concurrency from planning through last-mile execution, with purpose-driven sustainability in mind.

On this episode, Hannah Kain, CEO of the supply chain management firm ALOM, discusses why her organization is investing in sustainability and diversity. SCMR's Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.

Listen in as Rosemary Coates and Sarah Carpenter, Director at Assent, discuss human rights, forced labor, and sustainability in global supply chains. Rosemary Coates, Executive Director of the Reshoring Institute, hosts this episode of The Frictionless Supply Chain.

On this episode, Mike Knemeyer and Stan Fawcett discuss ESG and its impact on supply chains. SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts. Listen to this episode wherever you get your podcasts.

In this Episode, Rosemary Coates, Executive Director of the Reshoring Institute, and Cyndy Andela, CEO of Andela Products and Ruby Lake Glass discuss creative ways of thinking about sustainability in your supply chains.

With the UN climate summit imposing tighter regulations on GHG emissions, the clean energy tech market is booming, offering various promising solutions for companies striving to reach the vaunted “Net Zero” throughout their supply chain.

One thing is clear when it comes to the state of the planet’s climate: If we wish to meaningfully reverse the effects of climate change, the time for action is now.

When you’re ready to up your organization’s sustainability efforts, start by challenging the common assumption that industry and sustainability don’t mix - here are 5 ways to build sustainability into your corporate value system.

Today is Earth Day, and looking ahead to 2022, companies need to strive to take bigger action, make a more meaningful impact, continue to invest in resources and engage customers, partners, suppliers, employees, and nonprofits - so that collectively we are smarter together, sustainable together to tackle climate change.

Sustainability has re-entered the supply chain conversation—and it’s a concept that will continue to have an impact on organizations far into the future as the transportation sector continues to be the largest U.S. contributor to greenhouse gasses.

Based on various discussions with supply chain leaders, we examined the three things keeping supply chain leaders up at night, along with some quick tips and relevant links that provide more details and solutions.

Tariffs play a role in both imports and exports, so a supply chain software platform that can manage various types of flows is important, especially when it comes to sustainability initiatives.

This paper provides a technical guide to calculating the sustainability of Flock Freight’s shared truckload solution.

The connection between sustainability and resiliency isn’t new, it simply has become more prominent as industry leaders seek to shore up weaknesses along the supply chain.

This report provides a platform to observe how supply chain sustainability changes over time and how supply chain professionals react to these changes, it does not take a stance on whether industries are doing enough, or too much, or on what they should, or shouldn’t do; it is simply a gauge of the direction of supply chain sustainability.

Sustainable procurement is not something that should be done after processes to run your supply chain efficiently are in place, rather, these practices are integral to managing a supply chain effectively and should now be essential practices of supply chain management.