The Impact of Sustainability on Supply Chains?
What does the current focus on sustainability have to do with on-shelf availability and costs in the physical supply chain for consumer goods? The answer is “everything.”, according to this latest report by Capgemini, the consulting, technology and outsourcing services company.
The report says "Increasing political momentum around issues such as resource scarcity, climate change, security and new regulations brings to light critical challenges that our industry will face in the coming years. The 2007 Bali Treaty and other political initiatives are driving the industry to come up with breakthrough solutions. Such solutions require new thinking, new approaches and new collaboration on infrastructures. Until now, the most important parameters for supply chain designs have been related to cost efficiency and on-shelf availability. As a result of the growing importance of these emerging issues, new factors are becoming increasingly critical, such as traffic congestion in urban areas, energy consumption, CO emissions and the permanent rise in transportation costs.
The big question is: What impact will these new parameters have on the design of future supply chains?"
An interesting report, please click here to go to the report at Capgemini's website.
The report says "Increasing political momentum around issues such as resource scarcity, climate change, security and new regulations brings to light critical challenges that our industry will face in the coming years. The 2007 Bali Treaty and other political initiatives are driving the industry to come up with breakthrough solutions. Such solutions require new thinking, new approaches and new collaboration on infrastructures. Until now, the most important parameters for supply chain designs have been related to cost efficiency and on-shelf availability. As a result of the growing importance of these emerging issues, new factors are becoming increasingly critical, such as traffic congestion in urban areas, energy consumption, CO emissions and the permanent rise in transportation costs.
The big question is: What impact will these new parameters have on the design of future supply chains?"
An interesting report, please click here to go to the report at Capgemini's website.