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Take action beyond regulatory requirements
In today's complex global landscape, businesses need to understand and address the environmental and social impact of their operations. This awareness is integral to refining corporate strategies, optimising daily operations, and enhancing financial performance. The recent spotlight on supply chains – intensified by pandemic-related disruptions, geopolitical tensions, resource scarcity, and macroeconomic shifts – calls for a new approach.
To navigate these challenges and meet emerging regulatory as well as new stakeholder requirements, businesses must develop sustainable and future-proof supply chains. This requires a comprehensive integration of sustainability considerations into sourcing and operational processes. What’s more: sustainable value chains that go beyond regulatory mandates bring a wide range of benefits – including risk reduction, improved brand reputation, increased consumer trust, and a competitive edge.
Join us as we explore the future of sustainable supply chains where resilience meets responsibility.
Flora Marin
Partner, Sustainability Incentives and Value Chain Transformation, PwC Switzerland
How to redesign your supply chain for sustainability
Companies need to assess their environmental and community impact to enhance corporate strategy, daily operations, and financial performance.
What steps can you take to ensure your supply chain is responsible while achieving financial and sustainability metrics at the same time? We'll put our experience to work by helping you:
- Assess the risks associated with your supply chain and the steps necessary to protect your brand.
Consider best practice from across a range of industry sectors.
Define the characteristics you require from your suppliers in order to make sure they're sustainable.
- Monitor and manage environmental, social, and governance risks associated with your supply chain.
Measure the financial cost or potential impact of your carbon, water, and other usage on the environment and local communities.
Redesign global supply chains to be cost-efficient, minimising their impact on the environment, and delivering products and services on time.
To secure sustainable growth, corporations must cultivate resilient and diversified supply chains that incorporate sustainable business factors and risk considerations.
Craig StevensonPartner, Sustainability & Climate Change, PwC Switzerland
In an era of increased regulation and sustainability-focused scrutiny, businesses across industries are faced with complex challenges in their supply chains. From financial constraints and negotiation limitations to early-stage decarbonisation technology and restrictions on product usage, recycling processes, and auxiliary equipment, the hurdles to making a positive contribution to climate, environment, and society can seem daunting. Clients tell us that their challenge is to keep their business running while transforming their models. Inevitably, trade-offs have to be made every day.
That's where PwC steps in. With our vast experience encompassing all aspects of sustainability – including strategic sourcing and tool integration – we are here to guide you through this maze. Trade-offs that move you in the direction of a sustainable business will make a positive difference. Our holistic and tailored approach will help you transform your operations by turning your supply chain into a sustainability engine and unlocking the potential of a truly sustainable value chain. Don’t just adapt to change, drive it.
Value chain optimisation: start your sustainable journey
We have developed a comprehensive and integrated 3-step approach to transform your operations into a sustainable value chain: understand, define, and implement.
Our services are designed to help you improve efficiency, reduce costs, manage risks, increase profitability as well as competitiveness – and create long-term value through an optimised value chain:
Risk assessment: We analyse your organisation's value chain to identify potential risks, including operational, financial, compliance, physical, and strategic risks.
Gap analysis: Our experts assess the current state of your value chain and compare it to the desired state. By identifying gaps or shortcomings, we enable you to make the necessary adjustments.
Supply chain roadmap: Together we create a strategic roadmap for your supply chain operations. This includes defining milestones, setting goals, developing a plan of action, and aligning your organisation's objectives with its overall business strategy.
Strategy application and risk management model: We help you optimise your value chain with the creation of a risk management model to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate potential risks.
People development: Building up a dedicated team that focuses on value chain optimisation allows you to achieve your goals promptly. We assist you in enhancing the team’s skills and raise awareness in your wider workforce.
Change processes: We guide you through the process of changing your value chain operations. This may include introducing new technologies, restructuring operations, or implementing new management practices – and requires systematic trade-off management.
Sustainability reporting: We assist you in creating sustainability and assurance reports that go beyond mere regulatory requirements and provide a basis for further action.
There is growing pressure on businesses to account for their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – not just within their immediate operations (Scope 1,2), but across their entire supply chain (Scope 3). This is no easy task. Decarbonising a supply chain is a complex journey that demands resources, commitment, strategic innovation, and trade-offs. By fostering responsible business initiatives (RBI) and promoting the principles of circular economy, we aim to facilitate this transition towards greener, sustainable practices that reduce our collective carbon footprint.
PwC is your partner for finding resources, insights, and tools to help your organisation become an active participant in the global fight against climate change, starting with the very backbone of your operations – the supply chain.
Supply chain decarbonisation: walk the talk
Decarbonisation of your operations and supply chain are key differentiators as consumers, investors, and regulators demand climate action. Our 5-step holistic approach allows us to help you decarbonise your supply chain and to maximise your value on the journey to a climate resilient and net zero future.
Our services include:
Decarbonisation initiatives: We develop and deploy strategies to reduce your organisation's carbon footprint and contribute to global efforts to mitigate climate change.
Ethical sourcing practices: We guide your business in sourcing materials responsibly, ensuring that human rights, labour standards, and environmental protections are respected.
GHG Scope 1, 2, and 3 CO2 baselining: We conduct detailed assessments of your company's greenhouse gas emissions, giving insights into your environmental impact and potential areas for improvement.
CO2 reduction targets: We support your organisation in setting realistic yet ambitious CO2 reduction targets and in devising strategies to achieve them, in accordance with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and net zero guidelines.
Transformation roadmap: We design comprehensive roadmaps, outlining the strategic steps your business needs to take for successful sustainability transformation. We support the selection of an IT strategy that provides the information to enable the sustainable supply chain journey.
- Operating model: We support you in implementing and managing an operating model that aligns with your sustainability objectives
- Circular economy strategies: We devise strategies to implement circular economy principles in your supply chain, promoting resource efficiency and waste reduction.
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Walk the talk with us.
Mitigate your environmental impact and boost operational efficiency and resilience.
We look forward to hearing from you to discuss your specific challenges and needs.
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