Companies face pressure to improve environmental sustainability in supply chain
Live MintWhile an imperative for many companies, global disruptions including the Covid-19 pandemic have made it more difficult to achieve goals across the supply chain that advance human rights, fair labor practices and positive environmental outcomes. For two years in a row now, roughly 80% of English-language respondents reported that their firm’s commitment to supply-chain sustainability stayed the same or increased in the face of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Dr. Correll: For all the horrible things that the pandemic brought to the world, the new attention to supply chain may have actually helped supply-chain sustainability. For example, one subject we interviewed described 2021’s Covid-19-induced supply-chain snarls as giving his team air cover to propose new supply-chain ideas, ideas which included sustainability improvements like alternative-fuel delivery vehicles. Dr. Correll: Supply-chain sustainability efforts are seeking to eliminate the kinds of human-rights scandals and environmental transgressions that can permanently tarnish a brand or can seriously disrupt continuity of supply.
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