Leadership teams in every industry face a strategic imperative to create more sustainable value chains.

Long gone are the days of slow and incremental improvements. To compete, companies must adapt to rapidly changing consumer preferences and stakeholder demands for more sustainable products and circular value chains.

Most organizations have set ambitious sustainability targets, vowing to reuse, remanufacture, or recycle their products to minimize their impact on the environment. But the hard part lies ahead.

Companies now need to translate those goals into specific, tangible actions to prove to a multitude of stakeholders that they have delivered on their commitments.

Traceability across the entire value chain is the key to success. Traceability technologies provide management teams with a treasure trove of digital information about the upstream suppliers providing raw materials, the downstream partners adding value, customers who purchase the product, and all the processes along the way. Improved visibility on inputs and processes gives executives the means to achieve their sustainability objectives and provide vital data for provenance and sustainability certifications.