Stories About Purchasing & Procurement
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Common Knowledge: Bring All Suppliers Along for Sustainable, Profitable Change
SUPPLY CHAIN - Despite many big brands working hard to meet decarbonization remits, one key facet remains out of touch on the journey to net zero — engaging the entirety of a supply base.
Integration Technology Can Improve Resiliency, Sustainability in Supply Chain Management
SUPPLY CHAIN - The pandemic-induced supply chain hurdles represent a reboot opportunity for companies. Here, we examine how companies can leverage modern integration technology to both improve supply chain performance and address sustainable supply-chain management practices.
Research: In a Post-COVID 2021, Fashion Will Trend Toward Sustainability
THE NEXT ECONOMY - Based on research conducted by the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol in 2020, here are three trends we can expect from the apparel industry — as we emerge from COVID-19 and toward a more sustainable future.
Brands, Retailers Must Prioritize Data to Improve Purchasing Practices, Supply Chain Resiliency
SUPPLY CHAIN - After decades advocating for business that prioritizes workers and the environment alongside profitability, it is obvious to me that any efforts to pivot to address changing consumer demand and market uncertainty will be futile if workers are treated as commodities or taken for granted.
THESIS: TSC’s Newest Way to Track Retail Suppliers' Sustainability Performance
SUPPLY CHAIN - Heads up to retailers and suppliers: The Sustainability Consortium has moved its measurement and reporting system over to a new platform. What does this mean for retailers, and their suppliers? And will it offer more assurance to consumers?
Trending: Fashion Giants Take Further Steps to Create Climate-Friendly Industry
THE NEXT ECONOMY - The fashion industry has kicked December off with a bang, launching a number of game-changing initiatives and partnerships aimed at further improving its image by reducing its impacts.
Why Environmental Changes Are a Growing Public Health Crisis
BUSINESS CASE - Three years ago in Paris, Dignity Health was privileged to be among the delegations from around the world that came to consensus on how we needed to urgently curb our carbon emission rates or face irreparable harm. Now, as many of those same representatives meet at COP24 in Poland, disaster after disaster have claimed thousands of lives.
Trending: Regenerative Sourcing, Circular Models Revamping Fashion
COLLABORATION - This week, two fashion giants with extensive brand portfolios announced partnerships that show promise for cleaning up “dirty fashion.”
China Lags on Sustainable Viscose, Australia Unveils Tree-Free Alternative
CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - Report: Chinese viscose sector’s sustainability roadmap fails to deliver
'Value Change' Program to Help Companies Handle Tricky Scope 3 Emissions
SUPPLY CHAIN - The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sounds an alarm: “Limiting global warming to 1.5°C …requires rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land, urban infrastructure … and industrial systems.”
The Art of Failure: Lessons for Brands from the Bottom of the Pyramid
SUPPLY CHAIN - Let me tell you a few things about failure — a subject on which I’m something of an expert.
WWF Calls on Corporates to Implement Credible Mining Certification
MARKETING AND COMMS - WWF Germany recently published a report, Boom in Raw Materials: Between Profits and Losses, which offers one of the first concrete rebuttals from a major environmental group against the notion that industry actions alone are enough to move the global industrial mining sector towards greater responsibility.
'Powering Down Corruption' in Cobalt Supply Chains a Business Imperative
COLLABORATION - A new report from Washington D.C.-based nonprofit the Enough Project highlights just how rampant corruption and human rights abuses are in the supply chain for cobalt, a mineral used to power battery technology.
When it Comes to Climate Change, Holiday Feasts Are Mostly a Mystery
SUPPLY CHAIN - This year’s holiday feasts will feature a bounty of meats, vegetables and other foods, many that people don’t know are big contributors to global warming.
Why Online Retailers Are in Danger of Losing the 'Retail Wars'
THE NEXT ECONOMY - It’s a conflict which threatens to change the way we eat, shop and live. But unless you pay attention to the business pages, you may not have heard of the “retail wars.” For the uninitiated, ‘retail wars’ is the name given to the intensifying conflict between online retailers and their more traditional, physical counterparts over an increasingly crowded retail space.
Trending: Bison Down Jacket, Circular Undies Latest Apparel Nixing Waste
WASTE NOT - The global movement to end textile waste continues, with the release of outer- and undergarments from new and established brands alike.
New Global Map of Ancient, Endangered Forests Brings Conservation Science to Boardrooms
SUPPLY CHAIN - Today marks the public launch of a new online tool that will enable global companies to identify the world’s ancient and endangered forests.
PepsiCo Announces New Packaging Goal For 25% Recycled Plastic Content By 2025
PRESS RELEASE - As part of its sustainable plastics vision, PepsiCo, Inc. (PepsiCo) today announced a new goal to strive to use 25 percent recycled content in its plastic packaging by 2025. PepsiCo aims to achieve this goal by collaborating with suppliers and partners, helping to increase consumer education, fostering cross-industry and public-private partnerships, and advocating for improved recycling infrastructure and regulatory reform, all of which are required to realize our ambition. The goal includes an aim specific to PET (polyethylene terephthalate) beverage bottles to achieve 33% recycled PET content by 2025.
Targeting Energy Use Along Product Life Cycles: 4 Steps to Achieving SDG 7
CLEANTECH - 20 percent of the world population lacks access to modern electricity, but access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy is crucial to achieving many of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), from poverty alleviation via advancements in health, education, water supply and industrialization to mitigating climate change.
Righting Wrong Metrics: Lessons on Future-Fitness and Fixing Materiality
NEW METRICS - This week at Sustainable Brands’ New Metrics ’18 conference in Philadelphia, PA, over 300 delegates from brands, NGOs, strategists and practitioners across sectors gathered to share their latest tools and findings regarding measuring the risks and impacts of previously unmeasured forms of value, the newest credible tools and solutions for assessing the ROI of Sustainable Business.
