Sustainable Supply Chains

Regulators, customers and investors are exerting growing pressure on businesses to manage their value chains in a sustainable way, addressing issues around resource use, waste and social impacts.

Ensuring transparency about your own supply chain, leveraging digital solutions to increase efficiency and minimising detrimental effects on the environment and our fellow man – no easy feat in a global economy with complex value chains. Our supply chain management and sustainability experts can help you overcome these hurdles – from developing strategies to designing processes through to implementing organisational and digital structures.

Three key drivers are increasing pressure on companies to make their value chains more sustainable:

Consumers are increasingly demanding "clean products" – this makes trust a critical factor for a brand's success.

Investors and analysts are increasingly taking into account social and ecological risks in their valuations.

The focus of regulatory developments is shifting to corporate due diligence.

Sustainable supply chains as a competitive factor

Key stakeholder groups such as customers, employees, investors and business partners demand that companies be able to provide information at a moment's notice on how they ensure that minimum social and ecological standards are met in their own production facilities and by their suppliers. Transparency is key to a sustainable supply chain.

The benefits of sustainable supply chains

Companies need to take on a number of challenges on their quest for a sustainable supply chain. However, their effort is rewarded in many respects:

The companies are in compliance with the rising requirements and increasingly strict rules and regulations.
They bolster their brand as employers and reduce their reputational risks.
They build up solid relationships with suppliers and thus for resilient, transparent supply chains.

Our services

Our sustainable supply chain experts can help you implement your requirements. We will work with you to develop a company-specific strategy for analysing potential ecological and social risks, as well as the relevant management systems. In doing so, we will develop bespoke strategies for your supply chain and help you to implement them into your organisation, processes and digital presence.

This comprises the following elements:

Identifying new fields of business and existing structures to expand the use of new demand.
Conducting stakeholder and risk analyses along the supply chain.
Designing and implementing digital solutions and assets to improve transparency.
Measuring positive and negative effects throughout the network and developing performance indicators to measure those effects.
Adjusting supply chain footprints.
Identifying new fields of business and existing structures to expand the use of new demand.
Conducting stakeholder and risk analyses along the supply chain.
Designing and implementing digital solutions and assets to improve transparency.

Measuring positive and negative effects throughout the network and developing performance indicators to measure those effects.
Adjusting supply chain footprints.
Examining existing governance structures in order to improve the procurement organisation and processes.
Drafting a Supplier Code of Conduct and guidelines for auditing social and ecological supplier requirements – including scoring systems.
Optimising internal audit and review processes.
Developing labels and certifications.
Designing and conducting workshops and training sessions for suppliers
Auditing suppliers, production facilities and management systems in accordance with recognised standards.
Establishing and developing industry-wide initiatives.