- If your organization has determined that sustainability in the supply chain is critical to business success, would there be a benefit in making a commitment to this in its environmental policy?
- How important is sustainability in determining which MRO suppliers or supply chain partners your organization will work with in the next 3 years?
- How does your organization ensure that other supply chain partners are complying with sustainability requirements?
- How does your organization identify the sustainability design constraints created by its supply chain partners and other external factors?
- What does the current focus on sustainability have to do with on shelf availability and costs in the physical supply chain for consumer goods?
- How often does your organization disclose its supply chain sustainability practices?
- To what extent will your organization prioritize supply chain sustainability efforts in which areas, post COVID 19?
- What is your organization doing to develop continuous improvement strategies addressing climate change and sustainability in its supply chain practices?
- Does your organization consider NSF sustainability to be the global traceable down standard and the best standard to reduce supply chain risk and provide full traceability?
- Have you established a mechanism for stakeholders in the supply chain to bring sustainability issues to the attention of your organization and seek redress?
- Does your enterprise have a formal process for identifying potential sustainability risks that might exist within the supply chain (upstream and downstream)?
- Is your organization strong on environmental and sustainability issues and has it examined social dimensions as human rights in its supply chain or workplace equity?
- To what extent have you adopted which technologies to ensure supply chain sustainability and responsibility, if at all?
- How are sustainability performance measures through the supply chain incorporated into your organizations performance management process?
- Has pressure on your organization for supply chain sustainability changed during Covid 19?
- How does green supply chain integration affect the sustainability performance of your organization?
- Is sustainability a defined and measured objective within your supply chain organization today?
- Are climate change, environmental and sustainability risks factored into the supply chain management processes along with human rights and ethics?
- When you take a closer look at your organizations sustainability objectives around environmental impact, diversity and inclusion, clean energy and supply chain management, do you measure up?
- Do you think sustainability will become part of supply chain professionals core responsibilities over the long term?
- What is each member of the supply chain doing to address key sustainability impacts and to improve sustainability performance?
- What are the sustainability (social, ethical and environmental) issues for Supply Chain management in your organization?
- What is your approach to sourcing goods and supply chain management, including tender evaluation and contract management?
- What are the influential organizational factors in the supply chain management activities for diffusion of environmental and social sustainability practices?
- How can your organization position your supply chain as an innovation engine and contribute to the sustainability objectives of the organization?
- How important is the supply chain for your organizations ability to meet its sustainability goals?
- How is the supply chain prepared for the sustainability and innovation requirements of any project?
- How can value be added to ensure sustainability criteria to all supply chain actors?
- Are employee and supply chain partner incentives aligned with your organizations sustainability reporting objectives?
- To what extent can the consumer influence supply chain responsibility in making sustainability improvements?
- What steps do you take to ensure your supply chain is responsible while achieving financial and sustainability metrics at the same time?
- With which sustainable supply chain management measures does your organization achieve the maximum impact?
- What do other organizations publicly disclose about supply chain sustainability programs?
- In which action area of your sustainable supply chain management does your organization most effectively apply its core competences?
- Which supply chain process/activities need to be improved to make it better fit to sustainability performance?
- Are sustainability risks in your supply chain managed effectively through the procurement contracts?
- Which types of suppliers in your extended supply chain are the most impacted by your supply chain sustainability efforts?
- What policies are in place to monitor and manage your supply chain regarding sustainability issues?
- Have the sustainability risks in your supply chain been analyzed with respect to key supply categories and sustainability impacts?
- What are the sustainability issues (env, social, ethical) in the supply chain for your organization?
- Have the sustainability risks in your supply chain been analyzed for procurement contracts?
- What is the propensity of companies within your supply chain to collaborate to reduce sustainability exposures?
- What sustainability actions within the supply chain are being used to drive superior environmental, social, and financial performance?
- What kind of sustainability goal setting strategy does your organization use for your supply chain?
- What are your organizations main barriers to adopting a strategy around supply chain sustainability and responsibility?
- What are the main environmental and sustainability issues in supply chain activity?
- How integrated is sustainability into your supply chain and procurement strategies and processes?
- Which aspects in your supply chain help you to maintain sustainability and healthy choices?
- How is supply chain engagement managed between internal procurement and sustainability functions?
- How far should you engage your supply chain in meeting any future sustainability targets?
- Is the supply chain changing as a result of sustainability and carbon footprint issues/ requirements?
- What are industry definitions and supply chain concerns for sustainability operations?
- How are sustainability indicators being used in supply chain management?
- How do you implement social sustainability in your organizations supply chain players?
- How do you integrate triple bottom line sustainability thinking into supply chain design?
- Does your organization perform risk assessments in regard to human rights impacts within its operations and supply chain (audit supplier checks, risk assessment of markets of operations)?
- How does your organization consider the security of supply within the supply chain sustainability assessment?
- How can all parties in your supply chain, from corporates and financiers to regulatory and certification bodies, better collaborate to strengthen transparency and sustainability standards?
- How do you align the marketing strategy with the overall company and supply chain sustainability strategies?
- Monitoring the financial sustainability of your vendors is clearly imperative, and how far down the supply chain should this monitoring extend?
- What are currently the main conflicts between supply chain efficiency, resilience and sustainability goals?
- What is the nature, the causes and effects of sustainability related supply chain risks?
- What is the role of your supply chain in shifting organization procurement strategies from product to value to achieve sustainable and competitive advantages?
- How far along the supply chain does the responsibility of your organization extend?
- How does your organization implement its sustainability standards in its supply chains?
- In which part of the supply chain does your organization operate (upstream or downstream)?
- Do your organizations operations or supply chain have an adverse effect on climate change (GHG, global warming)?
- What should your organization know about identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and managing sustainment supply chain risks?
- What governance structure has your organization put in place to manage human rights and supply chain issues?
- Do supply management and global sourcing matter for organization sustainability performance?
- Does the board and all levels of your organization understand the business case for a responsible supply chain program?
- How important are which benefits your organization would hope to achieve through digitalization of supply chain activities?
- Do any of your organizations operations or supply chain have an adverse effect on the environment (air, water pollution, land degradation, deforestation and resource depletion)?
- Does your organization engage with its supply chain and customers on key issues on forest resources?
- Do your organizations operations or supply chain have an adverse effect on human rights (discrimination, lack of diversity and equal opportunities)?
- Does your organization engage your suppliers in improving the sustainability of your supply chain?
- Do you have someone in your organization who is an expert in sustainment supply chain issues during acquisition?
- How does innovation in sustainability issues take place in the governance of international supply chains?
- Does your organizations policy and strategy reflect material sustainability impacts of your supply chains and organizational drivers to sustainable procurement?
- How does your environmental and social performance impact your supply chain performance?
- How does your organization communicate differently with customers, supply chain companies and your community about sustainability?
- What are the biggest obstacles and challenges preventing your organization from more effectively engaging and committing to supply chain and procurement sustainability?
- Do you operate within a collaborative culture that supports organization wide sharing of ideas for improving supply chain performance today and sustaining it tomorrow?
- Should your organization actually measure and monitor results achieved on sustainable supply chain goals?
- Are there indications of involvement of any organization in the supply chain in practices related to illegal logging?
- How does supply chain interest in sustainably grown food potentially impact your business?
- Do you have contingency plans present to address supply chain disruptions and operations in countries that are impacted by a disruption?
- How have strategies and practices improved your supply base sustainability performance?
- At the operational level, how important is each knowledge management processes to your organizations development of Sustainable Supply Chain Operations?
- Have your organizations operations and/or supply chain historically had an impact on climate change?
- Do you have KPIs for your supply chain to meet in terms of sustainability?
- Has your organization applied any of the supply chain mapping beyond tier one suppliers?
- How is climate change impacting the supply chain and how will it impact the supply chain in the future?
- How does your organization manage to track the activities happening in its supply chain and practice transparency?
- What level of depth of visibility do you have into your supply chain with regards to CSR and sustainability?
- Can blockchain technology improve the supply chains in your industry and help supply chain partners gain a sustainable competitive advantage?
- When taking automation into consideration, is it be the responsibility of your organization to ensure that employees in the supply chain are educated to take on other forms of work?
- How viable are blockchain based supply chain management systems for use in sustainable industries?
- Do your organizations sustainability goals cover your significant impact areas, including operations, supply chains and products?
- Do you have different communications plans for supply chain partners and your clients, users and personnel?
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2yThanks for sharing
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2yGerardus Blokdyk - you offer such a massive list of points and questions on your topic, and you do that daily, I guess at some point you might elaborate a bit on the individual points and turn them into an article individually? That would be a powerful addition to these lists, for me.