The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) have published the State of Supply Chain Sustainability report. Every year since 2020, the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals have been surveying supply chain professionals about their firms’ supply chain sustainability efforts.
Through this research, they endeavoured to learn which issues and practices have risen and fallen in the eyes of the global community of supply chain professionals over time. We have also studied how different sources of pressure have come to influence firms’ sustainability journeys. More than anything, we have found that these topics are complex; some trends have changed over four years while others remain consistent.
The fourth instalment shows that commitment to supply chain sustainability appears to be resilient to certain types of crises, but vulnerable to others. Large-scale network disruptions, like those precipitated by the Covid-19 crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 are shown to actually result in increased commitment to supply chain sustainability among many firms. On the other hand, in 2023 many firms’ sustainability efforts appear to be have been especially sensitive to this year’s negative economic forecasts.
They also observe that sustainability commitments are not consistently distributed across supply chains and around the world. In particular, net-zero carbon emissions goals appear to be clustered in wealthier countries. This gives rise to concern about whether the global ambitions of net-zero goals can be achieved with only localised adoption.
The report is available here.
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