Capacity constraints, increased demand for home deliveries and safety concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic led experts to believe that sustainability efforts would fall by the wayside.
But that doesn’t seem to be the case, according to the “2021 State of Supply Chain Sustainability” report released Wednesday by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP).
More than 2,400 supply chain professionals were surveyed in late 2020, and 80% of respondents said that their companies’ commitment to supply chain sustainability (SCS) had increased or stayed the same since 2019.
“Some executives said that the pandemic had a limited impact on SCS and may have propelled or ‘accelerated’ their sustainability efforts,” the report said.
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