Journey step 1: How to establish a sustainable supply chain strategy
ENGIE Impact, Emmi Roth, and SPP discuss:
- How to approach the essential task of setting goals
- How to gain inter-departmental buy-in
- How to create a practical approach to execution
GHG deep dive: Accelerating progress on Scope 3
Restaurant Brands International, Mars, AstraZeneca, and SCS Consulting discuss:
- Challenges businesses are facing on the net-zero journey
- Industry tools, groups, and collaborations
- Building capacity with suppliers on Scope 3
Journey step 2: Scaling up your sustainable supply chain program
Novozymes, Stanley B&D, and Treadle Tree discuss:
- Baking sustainability into your procurement processes
- The benefits of standardization
- What industry collaborations and partnerships can help
Diversity deep dive: Working with suppliers for an inclusive supply chain
KEEN and Taproot Ventures discuss:
- Increasing inclusivity in your supply chain
- Navigating shifting priorities in a COVID-19 world
- Tailoring your methodology to align with local cultures
Fireside chat: Collaborating to tackle risks in indirect spend
Twentyfifty and SPP discuss:
- The growing sustainability risks in indirect spend categories
- Why indirect spend risks have traditionally been missed
- An exciting new project that aims to address ESG risks in indirect spend
Delivering value for suppliers
The Sustainability Consortium, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Campbell Soup Company, Tepe, and Potter & Moore discuss:
- What suppliers need to enable better participation in sustainability initiatives
- How buyers can support suppliers along their journey
- Best practices for making the process valuable for suppliers
Journey step 3: Designing supplier engagement strategies
Wolverine World Wide, HSBC, IDB Invest, and Sigma discuss:
- How businesses are prioritizing supplier engagement
- An emerging best practice in supplier engagement – sustainable supplier financing
- How businesses can build partnerships with suppliers
Plastics deep dive: Tackling plastics in supply chains
Beautycounter, Seventh Generation, CISL, and Pure Strategies discuss:
- How businesses are working with suppliers on plastics
- The importance of adopting circular thinking
- How we can reduce our reliance on packaging
Journey step 4: Sharing the value of supply chain sustainability
Tiffany & Co. and Navico discuss:
- Best practices for creating inter-departmental value
- Ways to embed sustainability into traditional business goals
- Shifting from culture change to process change
Labor deep dive: How to identify and mitigate forced labor risk
In The Style, Mosaic RSR, New Look, Fast Forward, and SupplyESChange discuss:
- How forced labor issues are evolving in 2021
- Collaborations to drive supplier improvement
- Elevating worker voice in supply chains
Scope 4: Enabling climate legislation through corporate influence
ClimateVoice and SupplyShift discuss:
- The next frontier in climate action – Scope 4
- The dire need for companies to lobby for climate legislation
- Results of the ClimateVoice scorecard
- How employees can push companies in the right direction
Solutions featured at the summit
SupplyShift works with sustainability experts to develop industry-leading solutions. Check out some of the tools we mentioned at the summit!
