Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value

CHAPTER 3

Integration

Supply Chain Management and Sustainability

Scope 3 emissions are a treasure map of opportunities across the value chain.

—Pankaj Bhatia, Director of the GHG Protocol, at the Word Resources Institute

• In a recent report, the McKinsey and Company (Bové & Swartz, 2016) observed that the next 10 to 15 years will represent major opportunities for consumer companies, with some 1.8 billion people expected to join the global consuming class by 2025. Yet, this report noted that one factor that can significantly and adversely impact the firm’s ability to take advantage of this unprecedented growth is poor sustainability performance—performance that begins in the supply chain. Failure to focus on the supply chain can affect financial ...