Planning for Sustainability: Risks and Opportunities
A Supply Chain Lunch & Learn
Sustainability is a disruptive and unavoidable force. Although it is driven by concerns for the climate and often described in environmental and purpose-driven language, that misses—and obscures—the point for most companies.
Sustainability creates financial risks for companies, especially for companies that defer or fail to understand and model those risks. Risks that are modest today are expected to materially escalate over the next 18–24 months. Whether seen through the P&L, cost of money, or valuation, sustainability is already affecting (or will soon affect) financial results.
In this Lunch & Learn, Victor Milligan, who is a founder and Partner at Cairnbridge Advisors, a consultancy helping businesses model and minimize the risk presented by sustainability, and Gary Jones, a founder and partner at River Rock Advisors, a value chain consultancy leveraging insights and analytics for business decisions, will join forces to talk about how to understand and model risks before they identify different strategic options to address sustainability. They’ll spend the first 20 minutes of the session as follows:
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Explaining how commercial pressures will flow into supply chains through Scope 3 terms
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Explaining how to translate that into financial terms so you can better interpret and model risks
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Discussing what strategic options exist to minimize risk
After that, they’ll open the conversation up to comments, questions, and potential next steps toward improved order management.
Have a question you'd like Victor or Gary to address? Feel free to send it in advance to info@bisg.org. The Lunch & Learn will be highly interactive, so you'll have a chance to contribute at the session even if you don't send a question in advance. After a 20-minute presentation, there will be an open forum. To allow participants to speak—and not just type questions—these sessions are conducted in a Zoom meeting (rather than webinar) format. Please ensure that your microphone is muted unless you'd like to contribute.
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