Strategic Focus: Influence Of Scope 3 And Product Compliance On Supply Chain Sustainability
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Executive Summary
With organizations facing mounting regulatory pressure to disclose sustainability performance beyond their own business operations, firms are increasingly conducting deeper scrutiny of their own and their suppliers’ ESG practices. The quest for transparency, Scope 3 quantification and product compliance have become key challenges and goals for corporates; decision-makers need to understand the influence of these factors and their overlap with broader ESG and sustainability strategies. This report guides corporates through product compliance and Scope 3 issues, and their relationship to supply chain sustainability, to help them build a consistent narrative that embraces internal stakeholders from EHS, sustainability, procurement and operations teams.Supply chain ESG performance relies on suppliers and product-level transparency
Key steps to embed product compliance and Scope 3 for supply chain ESG strategies
Figure 2. Supply chain sustainability capabilities serving product compliance and Scope 3 emissions management
About the Authors
Elisa Molero
Senior Analyst
Elisa is a Senior Analyst at Verdantix, specializing in supply chain sustainability. Her research covers 100 vendors in the supply chain sustainability market, supporting buye...
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Kim Knickle
Research Director
Kim Knickle is a Research Director at Verdantix, bringing more than two decades of analyst experience to the evolving world of sustainability. Her current research spans ESG a...
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