Where is the Supplier’s Voice in Sustainable SCM?

Supply Chain Management over the past few decades has moved beyond the traditional adversarial relationship between buyer and supplier.  Companies, for the most part, realize the long-term impacts of pushing burdens back down the supply chain onto their suppliers.  Many companies now strive to operate in a win/win framework with their supply stakeholders to define additional value.  The first step in this transition is to evaluate the ‘sustainable’ state of your key suppliers by allowing their voices to be heard. 

Our sustainability consulting experience has lead us to realize that applied sustainability concepts within the supply chain can provide a common platform to initiate a discussion and keep the value conversations flowing.  By allowing the supplier to have a voice, supply chain organizations capture key information. A benchmark study by the Procurement Strategy Council, Voice of the Supplier (VoS), defines four areas of interest and ongoing evaluation: click here to continue reading.  

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