Actionable Sustainability in Supply Chains

Supply chain management offers companies a great opportunity to work with all three dimensions of sustainability—profit, planet and people. The level of achievement depends upon how well these three are addressed both up-stream towards the supplier base and down-stream together with customers and consumers (basic). Actionable sustainability requires managers to relate root causes to impact of sustainable performance, to engage relevant with actors, and to determine system boundaries for their actions (advanced). Further, converting goals into actions is likely to require logistics service innovations, which can range from ad hoc to radical innovations (state-of-the art).

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