Supply Chain Sustainability and ESG Management

Sustainable supply chains consider social and environmental impacts. They aim to protect the long-term viability of businesses by reducing their collective impact on the environment and meeting growing demands.

Maintaining a sustainable food supply chain comes with both challenges and opportunities. It is a recognised way to protect people, products, and the planet, reduce waste, encourage a green economy, and ensure food is transported in the most efficient way possible. Food supply chains need to become smart, sustainable, and inclusive.

Establishing a sustainable supply chain requires specialist knowledge and insight. The sustainability experts at NSF can work with you and your suppliers to create viable and compliant policies and protocols, assess all interested parties, ensure compliance tracking, and verify that everything is working as it should.

We can help in a variety of ways to support your business, including:

Our experts will analyse your sustainability supply chain practises against those used by your peers or championed by industry leaders. You’ll better understand how you compare and identify your goals. This often pairs with a broader look at corporate ESG strategy.

Based on benchmarking and a clear understanding of your sustainability goals, NSF experts will develop the right policies and protocols to implement in your supply chain practises. This can include purchasing policies, supplier screening protocols, and compliance monitoring systems.

We’ll measure the compliance levels of your supply chain partners against established or proposed sustainability policies, protocols, or standards. This can include virtual or onsite auditing, self-assessments, and other methods that meet your business goals.

NSF’s cloud-based NSF TraQtion™ software can help you simplify the monitoring of ESG in your supply chain by tracking, measuring, and reporting on defined KPIs.

Once your supply chain ESG programmes is established, our sustainability experts will ensure you can make supply chain ESG claims with confidence. Using a spectrum of NSF's supply chain integrity and management expertise, we will help build and refine monitoring and reporting systems that provide a comprehensive 2nd party verification of your program.