SUSTAINABILITY
step by construction firms towards understanding how they can make the supply chain more efficient being driven by two key factors . “ One is the need to have more control from a sustainable / ethical perspective because today it ’ s not acceptable to not know where goods are coming from , how the raw materials were produced or how the workers at a given factory are being treated .
“ Of course , the second driver is cost and efficiency where we ’ re seeing companies pushing to understand what they can do better . Gone are the days when supply chains were just there to support core purpose and getting products into stores to sell . Our customers are looking at speeding up their processes , with less friction , while gaining insights from data they collect to become more cost efficient . We ’ re being asked more and more to leverage the historical data we have . As a business we go back more than 20 years providing supply chain solutions so we ’ re looking at ways of turning that
54 June 2018