Sustainable Supply Chain

Supply chains are both a crucial mechanism and key challenge to accelerating the transition towards a more sustainable, equitable and decarbonised future.

In response to both existing and emerging legislation, as well as the escalating demands from customers, organisations must develop robust strategies for assessing, reporting, and effectively managing ESG risks within their supply chains to meet the evolving and unavoidable expectations placed upon them.

Organisations that have committed to decarbonise their supply chain steered by initiatives and legislation such as, Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), ambitious internal targets and wider pressures, require proactive and meaningful engagement with suppliers to accelerate and build the essential capabilities for rapid and transformative change. The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive EU (CSDDD) and German Supply Chain Act (LkSG) will also require some organisations to assess and perform due diligence on their supply chains and mitigate ESG risks identified.

Companies need to drive the rate and scale of action required by building end-to-end capacity for change. Whether this is focused on managing ESG risks or helping suppliers to decarbonise, it means strengthening relationships with suppliers through meaningful engagement, communications, training and recognition, as well as optimising the internal system across people, processes, technology and data.

We can help you optimise your supply chain operations to drive impactful transformation, build resilience for the future and support your organisation to meet critically important global sustainability challenges.