Supply Chain Decarbonisation
Decarbonisation demands more than just reporting and offsetting. It requires rewiring how you source, design, produce, move, and recover value, and it won’t stick unless it’s backed by culture and capital. The real levers sit across multiple functions: procurement, logistics, operations, product, finance, and infrastructure. But none of it moves unless the people behind them are aligned and empowered.
Our Supply Chain Decarbonisation offer helps you build a structured roadmap and implement it across the full chain.
We go from diagnostic to delivery, embedding circularity as a core solution, not a side initiative, and ensuring that both investment logic and team behaviour support the carbon decisions you need to make.
Core challenges faced by organisations today
No Carbon Execution Plan
Ambitions exist, but no unified roadmap connects emissions to business decisions.
Siloed Targets and Fragmented Delivery
Procurement, design, and ops work in isolation, each solving a different version of the problem.
Scope 3 Blind Spots
Most emissions are upstream or downstream, where companies have the least control and the weakest data.
One-Off Pilots, No Scale
Reuse schemes, low-carbon packaging, or take-backs exist as isolated trials, are rarely embedded or scaled.
Lack of Ownership and Incentives
No one function truly owns delivery, and business cases rarely survive finance gatekeeping.
What would help
End-to-End Carbon Roadmapping
Map emissions and intervention levers across all stages of your value chain, from materials to end-of-life.
Circularity as a Lever, Not a Label
Integrate reuse, recovery, and by-product flows into core sourcing, design, and logistics and not just waste.
Cross-Functional Design and Delivery
Enable procurement, ops, design, and finance to make aligned decisions, backed by carbon data and incentives.
Governance and Funding Integration
Make carbon a business metric linked to budgets, targets, and decision-making frameworks.
Behaviour and Capability Enablement
Build the mindset, skills, and ownership needed across teams to deliver decarbonisation and not just plan for it.
Our “supply chain decarbonisation” products
-
Who it’s for: Organisations needing a clear carbon roadmap
What it does: Maps Scope 1–3 emissions, prioritises hotspots, and sets the strategy for intervention
Deliverables: Emissions baseline, intervention matrix, carbon reduction plan and a phased decarbonisation roadmap
-
Who it’s for: Procurement teams ready to embed emissions into supplier and material decisions
What it does: Redesigns sourcing strategies to favour carbon and circular outcomes
Deliverables: Scope 3 emissions mapping (Tier 1–3), Low-carbon material substitution (e.g. recycled aluminium, bio-based inputs), Supplier training and enablement, Carbon clauses and incentives in procurement contracts
-
Who it’s for: Firms with manufacturing or asset-heavy operations
What it does: Transforms energy, water, waste, and emissions performance across sites and process design
Deliverables: Renewable energy sourcing (on-site or PPA), Electrification of thermal processes, Heat recovery and process optimisation, Water, waste, and resource efficiency projects, Circularity programme
-
Who it’s for: Organisations with logistics and packaging footprints
What it does: Redesigns networks, helps select modes and type of fuel, and packaging for Scope 3 emissions impact
Deliverables: Modal shift (road → rail/sea), route optimisation, Low-carbon fleets (EVs, HVO, LNG), Packaging redesign for weight, volume, and recyclability, Consolidation and localisation of fulfilment
-
Who it’s for: Retailers with physical store networks, distribution centres, or energy-intensive assets
What it does: Site-level energy and carbon diagnostics across stores, DCs, and warehousing, Renewable energy roadmap (on-site solar, PPAs, green tariffs), Refrigeration and HVAC decarbonisation, Water, waste, and circular materials recovery (e.g. back-of-store recycling, asset reuse), and Data-driven prioritisation of retrofit or redesign across your footprint
Deliverables: Site-level performance dashboard, Decarbonisation roadmap by asset class, List of circularity opportunities in back-of-house and in-store operations, A business case for energy and resource efficiency upgrades
-
Who it’s for: Organisations with carbon targets but limited delivery traction, Leadership teams seeking cross-functional accountability, Sustainability teams struggling to influence procurement, ops, or finance
What it does: Defines carbon ownership across business functions, Aligns KPIs, roles, and incentives with emissions outcomes, Builds internal funding and investment governance, Installs behaviours and skills to sustain change, and Supports internal engagement, training, and change management
Deliverables: Organisational roles and accountability framework, Incentive and performance alignment plan, Internal funding and investment model for carbon projects, Behavioural change toolkit and capability plan
-
Who it’s for: Organisations ready to move beyond individual pilots and take a system-wide approach to circularity; Sustainability, operations, and innovation leaders looking to reduce waste, Scope 3 emissions, and virgin material dependence; and Brands, retailers, or manufacturers seeking practical closed-loop models with measurable outcomes
What it does: Assesses circularity opportunities and risks across your value chain, Prioritises interventions by impact and feasibility, Designs and launches high-value circular models (e.g. refill, reuse, recovery, secondary sourcing), Builds operational and partner readiness for scale, and Aligns with compliance frameworks (EPR, CSRD, DPP)
Deliverables: Circularity opportunity assessment and maturity map, a prioritised intervention roadmap, pilot designs and go-to-market strategies, a circular flow architecture (materials, logistics, partners), and an internal alignment toolkit (governance, roles, metrics)