The first report on sustainability, which was drawn up as "Our Common Future" by the Brundtland Commission as early as 1987, wrote:

 

"A development is sustainable when people living today can meet their needs without depriving people living in the future of meeting their own needs."

 

Central to this idea are:

 

• The concept of needs, that is, the basic needs of the world's poorer people.

 

• The idea of ​​limitation, that is, that the environment cannot provide unlimited resources or absorb emissions and waste.

 

Many years have passed since this report, which was presented at the 1992 UN summit in Rio de Janeiro, but unfortunately too little action to put our planet on the right path.

 

Large companies are often denigrated in the event of environmental wrongdoing, while SMEs are those that are particularly important and actually capable of producing the success of our climate goals. SMEs make up over 99% of companies in Switzerland (as of the end of 2019) and thus are a high proportion of the entire Swiss economy, which underlines the importance of this type of company for society and everyday life.

 

It is especially you, as a small and medium-sized enterprise, who shape these goals and can achieve their fulfillment. Would you like to do more for the environment or find out whether this is possible in your company context? Meet with us to identify potential improvement areas. Thanks to our expert knowledge in the field of value chain management, we can also identify potential at the interfaces with your suppliers and customers.

 

Our expert for value networks has already completed big mandates for value chain analysis. On behalf of a central Swiss food goods distributor and sole importer, our analyzes were carried out in the distribution network in Switzerland and also on site with our customer's Spanish partners near Granada (ES).

 

Would you like to review the sustainability aspects of your products, processes, sales, value network or your infrastructure? Then we are the right partner for you.