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Real customer successes: 4 tried-and-true tactics to build a more sustainable supply chain
Enterprises face a persistent gap between ESG sustainability targets and real-world supply chain execution; emissions have historically been hard to precisely measure at scale, and manual supplier sustainability reviews are burdensome.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Supply chain data centralized
Data is centralized across all supply chain processes to enable realistic lead-time predictions and emissions analysis.
Tools used
Celonis Process Intelligence GraphEnd-to-End Lead Times AppSustainable Spend Management AppShipping Emissions Reduction appdigital twin
Outcome
Freudenberg reduced working capital and lead times by about 10% across the business; Archroma quantified carbon emissions across more than 150,000 shipments and reduced outbound shipping emissions by more than 6% in less than 12 months; Heidelberg Materials accelerated sorting and selection of over 120,000 vendors.
Results
Time savedabout 10%
Volumemore than 6%
Grounding & classification
Source type: listicle or blog summary
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