To date, product-based businesses have focused their attention on ensuring that their products meet the spec and their customers’ needs whilst also the required quality standards. However, businesses are increasingly under pressure from stakeholders, investors, interest groups and customers to ensure that the products are also sustainably sourced and made.
Failing to ensure that your products do not negatively impact people and planet can have significant consequences. You risk brand reputation, legal compliance and potentially even the licence to operate.
Most businesses rely on an extended network of suppliers to bring their products to market and although you are not responsible for how others operate, you should ensure that the suppliers you select are responsible, ethical businesses.
This is challenging for most businesses as today we rely on large, global complex supply chains to bring our products to market. Indeed many businesses now have 100s of suppliers all of which have their own suppliers and they in turn have their suppliers. Understanding whether any of these suppliers is having a negative impact is hard.
Lead with an impact-based approach
Knowing where to start and how to address the risks in your value chain can be a real challenge. Indeed, understanding where the problem is across multiple products, numerous tiers of suppliers and across geographies feels like an impossible task.
Whether it is just one flagship product or 1,000s of products, the key to improving your product’s sustainability is to take an impact led approach and focus your attention on where it matters the most.
We will support you to map and prioritise the impacts and risks across the life cycle of your products. Our team can help you:
Identify environmental and social risk
Macro product and supplier strategies – if you have an extensive product offering or a supplier base, our team will first understand where the material hotspots are within in your supply chain and what you should do about it.
The Environmental and social supply chain impact assessments will help understand the environmental and social risks across your supply chain and where to focus your attention.
We will help you understand what sectors, geographies and environmental & social issues are most pressing to your business and will guide you in taking the right decisions.
Product-level strategies – if you are looking at several products, we can help you drill down the impact of your products and develop an approach to address these. Understand how you can improve the impact of your products through design, work with your suppliers and weigh up the product and material decisions.
Understand the environmental and social risks across your supply chain, find out how we can help.
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Sustainability at the heart of Seasalt
Seasalt is a Cornwall based fashion brand that, for over three decades, has been known for its quality clothing and unique collections. Inspired by coastal culture and creativity, the company has a growing customer following and over 60 stores across the UK and Ireland.
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‘Aim high or don’t bother’: A leading bank tackles climate change
Project background We have been working with a leading bank based in the heart of London on ISO 14001 compliance…
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Adopting a dynamic approach to product carbon footprints at bio-bean
Project background bio-bean Ltd is an award-winning clean technology company that has industrialised the process of recycling waste coffee grounds…
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