Sustainable SCM – Release Your Boldness - Sustainability: business, life, environment

In a recent Supply Management post, Creative Industry, author James Napier from Best Buy discusses the challenges with business innovation and ways to create break-through ideas in business. Operating under the premise that managed innovation is not an easy task, the article probes the question: Can boldness become a creative business sustainability driver?

“Leading organizations provide staff with tools and techniques to curtail biases and assumptions that limit bold thinking. They also provide a model of breakthrough thinking for staff to emulate by defining what good ideas are, showing staff the effort and process that leaders apply to generate them, and exposing staff to a variety of breakthrough idea examples.” –CBE Views

The growing focus on supply chain management as a strategic function within the organization has proven there to be opportunity to reduce cost and add value to the bottom line. Expanding on internal efforts, our sustainability consulting finds that today’s bold SCM organizations are looking to replicate the same business sustainability successes in their external processes and business relationships. We have witnessed how companies are:

Proactively incorporating sustainability concepts to decrease total supply chain cost.

Promoting greater eco awareness into transportation and inventory practices to drive efficiency, increase utilization of key assets, and address future regulatory changes.

Creating a common understanding of sustainability concepts, goals and objectives to provide a platform for supply chain discussion and continuous improvements.

Rather than regressing to a stagnate slow-moving model, simply passing along the cost and risk to suppliers, our sustainability consulting follows the progress of bold leaders who are exploring new sources of sustainable supply. Taiga Company works with proactive organizations seeking the unique value opportunity in sustainable supply chain management.