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Achieve a Sustainable and Circular Supply Chain with SAP Solutions from Infosys

The global economy has traditionally operated on the principle of a linear economy — produce, use, and discard. This approach generates significant waste and is unsustainable in the long term. A Sustainable Supply Chain fully integrates ethical and environmentally responsible practices into a competitive and successful model. End-to-end supply chain transparency is critical; sustainability initiatives must encompass everything from raw material sourcing to last-mile logistics, along with product returns and recycling processes.

Moving from a Linear to a Sustainable Supply Chain

A Sustainable Supply Chain comprises three components – Green, Transparent, and Circular. A Green Supply Chain integrates environmentally responsible principles and benchmarks into supply chain management including product design, materials sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, and end-of-life product management. It emphasizes the ability and willingness to be transparent about its supply chain operations to both internal and external stakeholders. A Circular Supply Chain follows the closed-loop approach where products are disassembled or reduced to their raw materials and remade into sellable products. This allows businesses to achieve the environmental benefits of recycling while recouping costs in the process.

Infosys Solutions for Sustainable and Circular Supply Chain

Infosys services drive Sustainable and Circular Supply Chains through insights, operational excellence and collaboration. Our solutions assist clients in designing responsible and innovative products while considering the impact of the product life cycle. We reduce supplier risk through ethical sourcing and supplier management, employing strategies such as multi-tier supplier traceability, periodic supplier evaluation and quantitative supplier selection and reporting. We facilitate sustainable manufacturing through simulation modeling for sustainable production, responsible innovations in raw materials consumption, comprehensive production waste management, improved operation feedback and periodic inspections.

Additionally, we optimize transportation and logistics through route planning, load consolidation, scenario-based network optimization and efficient reverse logistics.

Responsible and Ethical Supplier Network with SAP

Infosys Responsible and Ethical Supplier Network solution, built with SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Ariba and 3rd party ESG Data providers enhances transparency and establishes ethical and environmentally responsible standards across an organization’s supplier network. The solution provides a dashboard view of the multi-tier supplier network enabling analysis of ESG parameters among suppliers.

The solution seeks to address two key aspects of the Sustainable Sourcing – Supplier Evaluation (Get the Supplier rating from Third party providers / SAP Ariba based supplier evaluation questionnaire. Info record build) and Supplier Selection (Provide feedback on the supplier's selection based on ESG parameters to the Procurement process Inspection plan with ESG parameters).

Product Development

  • Product Life Cycle Impact
  • Responsible and Innovative Product Designs & Certifications
  • Product Prototyping & Simulations
  • Implementing Circularity Design Principles

Innovation and Responsible Design

Sourcing & Supplier Management

  • Multi-tier Supplier Traceability
  • Initial & Periodic Supplier Evaluation
  • Quantitative Supplier Selection and Reporting

Ethical Sourcing

Sustainable Manufacturing

  • Production Simulation
  • Improved operational feedback
  • Responsible and Innovations in raw materials consumption, Production Waste Management
  • Inspections

Optimized Manufacturing Processes

Transport & Logistics

  • Customer Collaboration and Order Consolidation
  • Scenario based network optimization
  • Minimize empty space, eliminate redundancies
  • Reverse Logistics (Returns & Recalls)

Responsible and Optimized Transport

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