Sustainability monitoring in large manufacturing supply chains as decision-making enablers

In reaction to deteriorating Earth processes, in particular with climate change, the Corporate Sustainability ecosystem has been rapidly evolving. The CSRD regulation with its double-materiality approach, voluntary disclosure frameworks, and ESG raters orientate how companies monitor and govern their sustainability, and which information is available to investors. Large manufacturing supply chains raise a specific problem due to their complexity, which requires appropriate methods to make corporate decisions with varying degrees of uncertainty and multiple stakeholders. Life Cycle Analysis, and its branches Organisational-LCA and Prospective-LCA, have synergies with Sustainable Supply Chain Management. A case study of sustainability monitoring is provided based on a 6-month internship experience in Schneider Electric’s Global Supply Chain Sustainability department. Improvements brought to facilitate tracking and operational decision-making are detailed. Additionally, Multi Criteria Decision Analysis was used to propose a consolidated indicator of site sustainability for 265 major manufacturing sites.