Sustainability and Supply Chain Management

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Jeremy is a Partner with LCP Consulting with over twenty-five years supply chain experience in a variety of consulting and line management roles. He has managed supply chain projects in the UK, Europe and the Far East - from the development of supply chain strategies to the implementation of supply chain IT systems. Jeremy has worked across a range of industry sectors including automotive, aerospace, high technology and FMCG manufacturing, retailing, oil, utilities and the public sector.

He is responsible for LCP Consulting’s work on supply chain sustainability and has led a number of projects with clients to identify supply chain emissions reduction opportunities.

Jeremy has published numerous articles and presented at conferences around the world on supply chain topics and is a guest lecturer on Cardiff University’s MSc in Logistics course.

Jeremy has an MBA in Marketing from the Cass Business School and a BSc in Engineering Science and Business Management from Durham University. He is a Member of the Institute of Logistics and Transport and a Chartered Member of the Institute of Management Consultants

Over the last 40 years global supply chains have evolved to create and sustain growth and demand through their economic scale – delivering both lower costs and superior value. Without doubt this has contributed to global warming, pollution, environmental damage and longer term material shortages. It has also generated deep social concerns about the ethics of working conditions, child labour and economic exploitation. Sustainability is the “catch-all” term for repairing the negative impact of economic ‘progress’ over the last 40 years.

These issues have emerged because costs have been optimised along the supply chain for the short term, without recognition of the long term implications and cost to the environment, material availability and social welfare. It is time for change. In this presentation I argue, and can demonstrate, that the same supply chain design and planning approaches that have driven the boom years can deliver sustainability, factoring in the longer term economic costs. In the words of Sir Rod Eddington, in his report to UK Government: “this is not a choice between being ‘rich and dirty’ or ‘poor and green’ – with the right design is will be possible to be ‘green and rich enough’.”