Creating circular supply chains

April 2021

An organisation’s supply chain — whether small or huge — needs to be considered as part of a successful transition to a circular economy. The Founder of Circular Supply Chain Network (CSCN), Deborah Dull shares the importance of getting your suppliers on board, the five characteristics of a circular supply chain, and how to implement them in this webinar replay.

CSCN connects a wide range of network and supply chain professionals to take action towards a circular economy.

"I like the idea of recommending a periodic table of uses instead of a periodic table of elements." (Deborah Dull, 2021)

A sneak preview of the webinar. The full webinar recording can be downloaded below.

Key takeaways from webinar

• Five qualities characterise circular supply chains - they should be lean, visible, predictive, regional, and flexible.
• The KPI to focus on is to understand what’s coming into your supply chain and where it is coming from.
• A truly circular supply chain does not produce waste and generates value by using secondary (non-virgin material) and regenerative inputs.
• After finding and eliminating waste, a circular economy can then add value by finding and monetising it.
• In a circular supply chain, every operation becomes a source of raw material for another operation — by transitioning to a circular economy, anything you are paying to dispose of today becomes something you can sell tomorrow.

The webinar was hosted by Jim Goddin, Head of Circular Economy at thinkstep-anz.

The full webinar recording can be downloaded below.