Building Resilient Renewable Supply Chains

The renewable energy supply chain has to be at the forefront of sustainability and ESG compliance.

Focusing on sustainability matters, it is also worth mentioning several risks that can disrupt the business, such as increased manufacturing volumes, supplier disruptions, ethical risks, quality problems, geopolitical risks, capacity constraints, and so on.

These risks lead to delays in customer orders, increased landed costs, reduced margins, missed customer orders and revenue, delays in new product introduction, organizational inefficiency, and demotivated staff.

A risk management approach, together with stage-gate project management, is fundamental for keeping the supply chain on track and securing the desired outcome within the expected time, costs, and quality.

Three questions are the pillars for a solid preparation of the project:

• What is the opportunity in the global supply chain?
• What is the risk?
• What is the objective of the project?

In order to answer properly to these questions, a leadership structure must be in place first

• Define the current organizational
• Clarify roles and responsibilities
• Ensure adequate resources and establish primary communication channels.

By doing so, the project team is more resilient and can approach the most common processes in the whole supply chain management.

Typical processes that are managed with…