Our IP is co-created in our value network following an open-source approach. Especially open-source frameworks and methodologies remain open-source and are not commercalized, but used to create value for our clients and accelerate solution development, as well as improve its quality.
At the moment we focus our activities on sustainable supply chains, with the Sustainable Supply Chain Framework (S2CF)
While global supply chains have used digital technology for quite some time to increase effectiveness and efficiency of supply chain operations with the goal to drive down costs and sometimes increase revenue, environmental and social aspects have been neglected.
Sustainability is defined as the combination of people, planet and profit according to the Triple Bottom Line concept. Other approaches and initiatives like ESG and the UN Sustainable Development Goals also relect these three dimensions of sustainability.
For various reasons, the transformation of global supply chains toward real sustainability has been slow and was mainly been driven by major incidents like oil spills or detected human rights violations.
To show the value of a sustainable supply chain, give guidance on its transformation and provide accelerators for building sustainability solutions, Platform Industrie 4.0 (Digital Business Model working group) and the MIT Club of Germany (Sustainability working group) initiated the Sustainable Supply Chain Framework to accelerate the adoption of sustainable solutions in global supply chains. Every day a sustainability solution goes live earlier can have a positive impact on people, planet and profit.
You can find a 15 minute video of the very first presentation of the Sustainable Supply Chain Framework on the Hannover Messe on the YouTube channel of the MIT Club of Germany as a recording. Since then the Framework has developed, so the structure presented at the HMI is not the current one, but the changed structure is easily understandable.
The Sustainable Supply Chain Framework is published on GitHub.