The 21st Century Supply Chain Executive: Global and Green
By Jay Millen and Lisa L. Walker
It is nearly impossible to return from a shopping trip without seeing earth-friendly products or to watch or read the news without encountering a story about the environment. Businesses today need to focus on the complex issues of sustainability. Declining to do so may cost them dearly in today’s competitive marketplace of environmentally aware customers.
Sustainability will be the new metric for the supply chain and will require monitoring internal operations and those of suppliers. Executives with the skills to handle this complex issue are in short supply.
This Korn/Ferry whitepaper examines whether companies have the necessary management expertise to tackle this increasingly complex issue. A sustainable supply chain that seizes value-creation opportunities offers significant competitive advantages for early adopters and process innovators, and executive leadership needs new skills in order to avoid having sustainability and profitability to be an either-or discussion.
