Supply Chain Sustainability with Circularity to Drive Profitability Workshop

Program Objective

Circularity is a methodology to reduce risk by eliminating waste and pollution in your supply chain. Circularity is above lean, superefficient supply chains by removing unnecessary inputs to the products and services, thus increasing profits and contributing to a more resilient supply chain. Therefore, it is critical to understand circularity and the work you can do today on your supply chains; it is meant for tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 suppliers and manufacturers alike.

Who should attend

• Individuals who are active in supply chain improvement projects or the implementation of supply chain systems.
• Sustainability managers who want to include supply chains in their organization’s sustainability targets.
• Operations, production, and manufacturing professionals interested in circularity principles.
• Organisations looking to implement zero waste goals.
• EHS professionals who want to remove hazardous substances from their facilities.
• Procurement, transportation, logistics, distribution, and warehouse professionals concerned about packaging waste.
• Suppliers, distributors, inventory professionals, and individuals curious about how to implement circularity.

Program benefit

• Understand end-to-end processes and how to set science-specific sustainability targets.
• Plan and strategize circularity as a multi-year goal.
• Create a systematic approach for repeatable results in multiple locations and years.
• Positively influence the organizations' sustainability message through team building.

Learning Outcomes

• Effectively use Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) to find sustainable targets in your value chain.
• Organizational process maps to define your circularity target.
• Processes at the job level for repeatable results and cross-functional teams to get the most out of the targets.
• Measure success with the quality matrix approach.
• Circularity maximizes the value generated by the supply chain.
• Circularity as an order winner in your value chain.

Program Outline

Module 1: Creating Circularity

• Introduction to Circularity
• Life Cycle Thinking (LCT)
• Introduction to the process mapping approach
• Developing Process Maps
• Establishing job-specific KPIs
• Implementation of a maturity matrix

Module 2: Bringing Circularity to Organizations

• Creating a cross-functional team
• Target ranking to find the highest priorities
• Imbedding sustainability into the organization’s strategic objectives
• Quantifying the value created
• Competition as an order qualifier
• Circularity as your order winner

Workshop Dates & Duration

22 - 30 July 2024

Classes are conducted twice a week (Tuesday & Thursday), 10 am to 1 pm Sydney Time, totaling 15 training hours. Participants will join the training via ZOOM. Participants will earn 15 CPD points for certification maintenance.

Prices

ASCI Member: $2,399
Non Member: $2,799

The fees include digital license materials and exam. The final exam consists of 20 multiple-choice questions with a 30-minute duration and is conducted in an online iProctored environment.

Instructor Introduction

Denice Viktoria Staaf

M.A, B.A.

Principal
Labeling Sustainability Inc

Supply Chain Diva
- Founding Member and Vice President
- Center for Corporate Performance & Sustainability

Denice Staaf is also known as the Supply Chain Diva by the global supply chain and sustainability community. She is based in California, USA, and Mexico City, Mexico. She contributed to the development and progress of corporations such as LaFarge Holcim, CEMEX, Maglin, Boral, Trespa, ElastoChem, Panel Rey, Good for Life, and ArcelorMittal in internationally recognized environmental declarations, carbon footprints, sustainability, circularity, hazard screening, green building materials, and sits on the technical committee for standards setting for sustainable building materials.

She is a passionate sustainable supply chain champion; she believes that sustainability can be used to create a competitive advantage.

Denice completed her masters from Harvard University focused on Environmental Management and Sustainability, where she specialized in sustainable building materials. Her focus was on the life cycle and organizational sustainability. She has a degree in both Interior Design and Humanities from Ursuline College. She is certified in Healthier Building Materials from Parsons School of Design, is a LEED Accredited Professional, and is a WELL Accredited Professional.

Denice is actively involved in teaching, research and development, mentoring, and advising global corporations on reducing waste and energy and driving towards their circularity. Her expertise is sought after for teaching organizations how to achieve true sustainability.

She has over two decades of hands-on experience in sustainability in manufacturing organizations working in organizations globally. She founded the consulting firm Labeling Sustainability to help building product manufacturers understand their product and operational impacts and to communicate their efforts to their stakeholders.

Through her work at the Center for Corporate Performance & Sustainability, her primary focus is on the systemic development of the sustainability process approach to get organizations' results through a transparent, collaborative, and in-depth look at their inputs and outputs, focusing on waste management and circularity. The process approach taught at the Center for Corporate.

Performance & Sustainability is based on decades of proven results to help organizations reach their zero waste and circularity goals.