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Supply chain miles

Strategic perspective

Corporate social responsibility perspective

Key performance question this indicator helps to answer

To what extent are we minimising the environmental impact of our business?

Why is this indicator important?

In a globalised world we often buy goods and supplies from anywhere in the world based on quality or price criteria we have set. However, we often forget the environmental impact of shipping goods halfway across our planet. The concept of measuring the miles (or kilometres) travelled by a product from the producer to the consumer was first developed in the food supply chain, where the term ‘food miles’ was conceived. Food miles is now regularly used as a metric on food-packaging labels to ...

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