Baskin, Kara. "The state of supply chain sustainability". MIT Sloan School of Management. December 14, 2023. https://mitsloan.mit.edu/...

This report published by MIT Sloan defines supply chain sustainability as “the management of environmental and social impacts within and across networks consisting of suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and customers.” The five key takeaways from the report, which captures a turbulent world that continues to grapple with the complex goal of sustainability, are (1) Commitment to supply chain sustainability appears to be resilient to certain types of crises but vulnerable to others; (2) Sustainability commitments aren’t consistent across supply chains and around the world, (3) Pressure to increase supply chain sustainability comes from multiple quarters; (4) Pressure to increase supply chain sustainability comes from multiple quarters, (5) Many firms have no net-zero goals.

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