APQC Infographic: Four steps to a sustainable strategy

Sustainability is a hot topic in supply chain due to several factors:

• supply chain processes are the biggest contributors to an organization’s carbon footprint.
• extreme weather events threaten the stability of the supply chain
• the COVID-19 pandemic put more consumer attention on the stability and social responsibility of organizations

Organizations can approach sustainability as with any other business challenge by starting with a strategy.

To develop and deploy a supply chain sustainability strategy, APQC recommends taking the following steps.

Each organization has its own sustainability challenges, goals, and approaches to reach its goals. Some need a complete overhaul of their environmental, people, social, and governance practices to adequately address their challenges.

Sustainability goals need not conflict with budgetary and customer service priorities. The strategy should support business needs, and collecting metrics to know what does and does not work enables organizations to update processes when necessary.

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