How Technology can drive Sustainability in Supply Chain Management

Respect your business environment and put sustainable guidelines in place to ensure green sourcing, inventory and logistics processes...

Focus on customer needs, provide the full transparency about the supply chain activities and help to safeguard the ecosystem and the planet

Supply Chain is at the heart of the value chain. From demand sensing, sourcing, order fulfillment up to logistics it synchronizes all activities of the company supply network. And the supply chain has a huge impact on the overall sustainability goals of the company and should be driven by the organizations’ sustainability strategy. The supply chain can make a business more competitive and it can become a unique selling proposition (USP) for existing and future customers who want to make an impact. The supply chain needs constant alignment with your business partners and legal authorities in order to be able to fulfill on the promise of overall sustainability and to make a positive impact. It is about optimizing logistics and transportation, create new delivery methods as well as increase awareness on packaging and scrapping. Modern Supply Chain needs to focus on innovative technology. Immersive Experience can support warehouse employees doing hands-free picking, Augmented Reality (AR) can assist workers with up to date information and work instructions making sure that environmental guidelines and rules are followed. Machine Learning & Business Intelligence can help to sense demand and optimize forecast while taking into account inventory and supply levels. As in Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain also creates huge amount of data that needs to be processed in order to support decision making. Automation & Robotics can be used to streamline and optimize an ecological-friendly flow of goods and to reduce labor-intensive manual work. Supply Chain only works if it is properly integrated in supplier and partner networks. Therefore Smart Integration & Connectivity is the most important part of it. Only if all data domains of the supply chain are integrated it will be possible to positively influence the customer experience and to build a positive product and brand image.

🌎 Create the foundation to ensure an ecological-friendly flow of goods (from source to destination and beyond, following clean waste management practices

🌎 Optimize sourcing, inventory and logistics processes in order to follow sustainable guidelines

🌎 Put the planet in the center of your thinking and design an supply chain that will benefit all participants equally

I believe it is time to revolutionize the way we do business. It is time for a Purpose-driven Wellbeing Economy. But to achieve this goal we have to speed up the adoption of sustainable business practices in supply chains. Smart Technology is one of the key enablers to get there. What do you think?