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The past year highlighted the fragility of global supply chains and logistics networks and the need to adapt to rapidly changing business models and customer preferences. The importance of flexible, resilient and sustainable customer value chains is critical as organizations recalibrate to a post-pandemic world.
Global supply chains are also subject to environmental risks. In 2020, over 8,000 suppliers disclosing through CDP, a global disclosure system for environmental impacts, reported that US$1.26 trillion of revenue is likely to be at risk over the next five years due to climate change, deforestation, and water insecurity1. Organizations are also likely to be challenged with reputational and regulatory risks across their value chain. For instance, emissions from supply chains are on average 11.4x higher than emissions from a company’s direct operations2. In many sectors, supply chains are responsible for over 80% of total greenhouse gas emissions.
There is a strong argument for accelerating efforts to tackle these emissions, as suppliers reported combined savings of US$33.7 billion in 2020 by actively cutting emissions.3
Challenges in creating a sustainable customer value chain
Organizations struggle with achieving sustainable value chain goals largely due to three factors:
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Limited visibility across the end-to-end value chain to drive transparency and accelerate adoption of sustainable best practices
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Lack of flexibility to adapt to new business models as highlighted during the pandemic and the rapid shift to e-commerce
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Limited insight into an organization’s operational decisions and their impact in reducing carbon emissions, preventing data-driven decision making.
How Google Cloud can help
Our mission at Google Cloud is to accelerate your organization’s ability to digitally transform your business. That includes supply chains. With better insights from data you can automate processes more intelligently. With smarter ML models you can optimize systems and routing. With an open platform you can integrate partner solutions. And you can connect your workforce in real time to collaborate up and down the value chain.
Leveraging these technologies, we’re partnering with our customers to tackle the unique sustainability challenges they face to help transform their supply chains.
