April 2022, Procurement Magazine, Supply Chain Digital and Bizclik Media Group returned to the Tobacco Dock (London) to host our second Procurement & Supply Chain LIVE.
Dubbed ‘The Risk & Resilience Conference’ the event featured keynotes, roundtables, Q&As, and 1-2-1s from inspirational and knowledgeable leaders in the procurement and supply chain space.
Sheri Hinish, Executive Partner, IBM Sustainable Supply Chain, Finance and Circularity, delivered a keynote on the barriers to environmental sustainability and how organisations can navigate them.
“Sustainability is not someone else’s problem,” Hinish began. “More than 50% of CEOs believe that business leaders must take responsibility for the business impact on communities in which they operate.”
However, according to Hinish there is a gap when it comes to strategy leading to action. She said that while 86% of CEOs have a sustainability strategy, only 35% have acted on them.
Explaining this fact, she said: “I think it’s largely because it’s really hard to operationalise bold sustainable development goals and make it real. We know that sustainability is good for business, it’s good for the planet, but how you actually do that is a bit murky.”
