Data for Sustainability & Productivity
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🌲 Sustainability


The demand for transparency in sustainable development from investors and customers has grown over the years.

Your organization is probably developing a sustainability roadmap with initiatives to monitor and reduce its operations' environmental impact.

How can you use data analytics to support the green transformation of your company your company?

In this section, you can find articles about methodologies and tools using Data Analytics to measure, monitor and reduce the environmental impact of your Supply Chain.

♻️ Sustainable Initiatives

How can you reduce CO2 emissions and optimize resource usage by implementing a data-driven approach to Supply Chain Optimization?

On the left, a circular economy process is shown, starting with the production of goods, delivery to stores, customer usage, collection of used items, and recycling. On the right, sustainable sourcing of suppliers is illustrated with three suppliers ranked based on environmental and social indicators like water usage, energy consumption, and cost per unit, encouraging a data-driven approach to sustainable supply chains.

Supply Chain Operations Optimization

Circular Economy

Sustainable Sourcing

I have also developed a web application, have a look 👇

🏭 Sustainable Supply Chain Optimization App

Using this web application, you can simulate several scenarios to estimate the impacts of implementing sustainability constraints on your supply chain network efficiency.

Three objectives for optimizing supply chains are depicted—minimizing total costs, minimizing emissions, and minimizing resource usage. It shows global supply chain maps for each objective and results charts, illustrating production costs per location, supply chain flows, and environmental impacts, highlighting data analytics in balancing cost efficiency with sustainability.
  • Where should you open manufacturing facilities if you want to minimize the amount of CO2 emissions?
  • What would be the overall cost impact if you seek to minimize the straightforwardwater used to produce your goods?
  • What is the perfect combination of production facilities to limit the amount of waste generated?
A web-based interface for a Sustainable Supply Chain Optimization tool. It starts with data input, followed by visualizing data, choosing objective functions, and reviewing parameters and results. The focus is on minimizing production costs, CO2 emissions, and energy or water usage with charts visualizing these aspects for decision-making.

It is straightforward to use.

You can get your network design after following these four steps.

  1. Use the pre-loaded sample dataset or upload your data using the template.
  2. Visualize all the parameters that will impact your network design (demand, supply, costs and environmental impacts)
  3. Choose the objective function: minimize costs, CO2 emissions or water usage
  4. Visualize the results, including the cost structure (fixed/variable), the goods flow from plants to markets and the environmental impacts.

Try it ➔

📊 Reporting and Monitoring

Use data analytics to collect data from multiple sources to measure the environmental impacts of your end-to-end Supply Chain operations.

Two diagrams show supply chain sustainability concepts. The left illustrates a supply chain sustainability report, with CO2 emissions from transportation methods like road, air, and sea. The right explains a life cycle assessment, tracking a fast-fashion product from production to disposal, emphasizing the environmental impact across the entire life cycle using data analytics.
Examples of Articles