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3 Strategies to Integrate Sustainability Into Supply Chain Operating Activities

Like all business divisions, the supply chain is compelled to integrate sustainability into its strategy and identify ways to incorporate it into daily operations. This raises an important question: how can we tackle these pressing challenges and turn them into opportunities?

Explore this exclusive Gartner® report to discover the three pivotal integration strategies recommended by the author, Kevin Lawrence, and learn how they can be essential parts of key supply chain functions. 

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Our Key Takeaways for Effective Supply Chain Management

  • Leverage data analytics: Utilize supply chain analytics for improved decision-making and efficiency. This involves analyzing vast amounts of data to identify patterns and gain insights.
  • Adopt advanced technologies: Implement cognitive technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance supply chain processes.
  • Ensure connectivity: Maintain a connected supply chain that collects data from various sources, including IoT devices and social media.
  • Focus on supplier management: Prioritize supplier selection, evaluation, and relationship management to ensure quality inputs at competitive prices within specified timelines.
  • Adopt Agile Implementation: Implement supply chain strategies in an agile manner for flexible and efficient operations. This will unlock significant value and benefits.
  • Strengthen orchestration: Improve planning processes by evaluating the positioning of discretionary inventory and capacity buffers.
  • Manage network supply locations better: Enhance advanced selection and balancing capabilities to achieve optimal supply locations.
  • Improve material planning capabilities:  Meet the demands of multi-sourcing for better planning.

Gartner, Identify New Supply Chain Planning Capabilities to Support Resilience Tactics, Cristina Carvallo, 23 January 2024. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. 

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