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How Suppliers Demonstrate Best Practices to Buyers

How Suppliers Demonstrate Best Practices to Buyers

According to Gartner’s Future of Supply Chain: Crisis Shapes the Profession report, 77% of companies say that they’re investing in deeper and more collaborative supplier relationships to build resilience. Since COVID-19, we’ve seen that companies want to partner with responsive, resp..

How Remote Assessments Can Reduce Audit Costs

How Remote Assessments Can Reduce Audit Costs

Audits prove to be a heavy lift for many companies. Time is retracted from core operations due to suppliers juggling the task of repeatedly participating in them, which is a dragged-out process for all involved. Not to mention the cost. For companies, audits can be expensive, especially if..

Supplier Engagement Best Practices – Key Takeaways From Our Webinar

Supplier Engagement Best Practices – Key Takeaways From Our Webinar

The need for supplier engagement has never been greater—an engaged supply chain drives impact and lays the foundation for businesses to collaborate with suppliers to address our most pressing sustainability issues. Yet today, supplier engagement efforts have been lacking. On Sep..

Tackling Plastics and Packaging in Supply Chains

Tackling Plastics and Packaging in Supply Chains

Plastic waste has a staggering impact on our environment. Roughly 40% of all produced plastic is for single-use plastic packaging, and 5.25 trillion plastic and microplastic pieces float around in global waters. By 2050, the volume of plastic in the ocean will outweigh fish. Plastic..

Best Practices for Sending Supplier Sustainability Assessments

Best Practices for Sending Supplier Sustainability Assessments

According to Deloitte, the market for responsible supply chain tools could reach $2.7B by 2023. One pivotal type of tool is digital supplier assessments. These tools help companies achieve actionable insights by collecting and analyzing supplier sustainability data. However, poorly designe..

Maximizing Supplier Participation in Sustainability Reporting

Maximizing Supplier Participation in Sustainability Reporting

Gartner predicts that by 2023, organizations that don’t optimize how they manage supplier data will have faulty information for up to half their suppliers. To prevent bad data from corroding sustainability insights, organizations must streamline supplier data collection. The easier you m..

Roadmap of Industry Groups – Your Complete Guide to Supply Chain Sustainability Collaboration

Roadmap of Industry Groups – Your Complete Guide to Supply Chain Sustainability Collaboration

2021 has brought an increased drive for corporate sustainability, from mitigating GHG emissions and promoting DE&I to preventing deforestation. These measures are not only critical for the future of the planet; they’re critical for the future of your company, too. Supply chains accou..

Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Your Supply Chain

Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Your Supply Chain

The 2020 triad of health, economic, and racial justice crises has accelerated corporate thinking about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Today, whether through internal hiring initiatives, philanthropy, or community engagement, most major companies are engaged in diversity in some ca..

How to Identify Your Supply Chain Sustainability Risks and Opportunities

How to Identify Your Supply Chain Sustainability Risks and Opportunities

In today’s climate, ESG compliance is no longer a “nice-to-have.” If you’re not taking ESG seriously, you’re simply not prepared for the future. And to take concrete action towards increasing sustainability performance, you must prioritize your supply chain, where the greatest ES..

How to Approach Multi-Tier Supplier Assessments

How to Approach Multi-Tier Supplier Assessments

Organizations big and small rely heavily on hundreds—if not thousands—of different suppliers around the globe. In this type of supply chain ecosystem, companies must understand sustainability performance of not only their tier-one suppliers, but also their second, third, and fourth tie..

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