Mounting regulations are bringing sustainability to the top of leaders’ agendas
Globally, regulators are focusing on stricter definitions and standards for sustainable business practices with significant operational and financial implications. While promoting and investing in sustainability was once seen as “optional” for businesses, today, it has become increasingly mandatory—and complex.
Consumer Product industry leaders are under pressure to address stringent sustainability requirements under the EU Green Deal and other emerging global regulations. They are being forced to look more aggressively, not only at their targets in individual areas but throughout their entire operations–and to their value chain partners.
In this new atmosphere, observability has never been more critical, extending beyond traditional analytics and reporting to real-time, end-to-end visibility across the entire supply chain. From raw material sourcing to manufacturing, retail, and circularity, CPG and F&B organizations need to see their processes through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.
The benefits to “sustainability by design”:
Product transparency and traceability throughout the value chain
Streamlined processes and cost reduction across business functions
Improved compliance with regulatory requirements
Greater cross-team collaboration and communication
Faster innovation of sustainable products
Achieving the observability that’s required today starts with data
Driving wide-reaching operational transformation is not easy for large organizations. And for many leaders, legacy systems and processes are getting in the way of progress. Fragmented manual workflows and inconsistent reporting limit companies’ ability to bring transparency into R&D, supply chain, manufacturing operations, and beyond.
Legacy technology captures information about products from raw materials to the consumer but does not provide visibility and insight into the processes and environmental factors needed to bring products to the shelf. Sustainable innovation and operations must start with a foundation of accessible data, facilitating data exchange and access across value chain partners through common structures and definitions.
A unified data foundation
Achieving observability and driving holistic visibility throughout the value chain requires bringing together data, documentation, and processes across internal business functions and external partners into a single accessible platform.
At Veeva, we are focused on supporting companies at every stage—from concept to consumer—through our proprietary Vault platform and integrated suite of solutions. Vault enables users to eliminate process and data silos with a unified data architecture that drives sustainability through effective collaboration, efficient data exchange, and consolidation of sustainability data from diverse sources and formats.
As a Public Benefit Corporation, Veeva’s mission is deeply rooted in enabling sustainability and benefits for society and the planet.
Since our inception, we have worked with some of the largest global companies providing products for billions of people in a healthy, safe, and sustainable way. Our solutions are helping companies make progress faster on their sustainable business goals.
“We need to evolve our Food Safety and Quality Management System towards an integrated management system to be able to comply and support our sustainability agenda.”
Wally Mateo, Vice President & Head of Quality Management, Jollibee
“At Mondelez, we recognized early the urgent challenges that we as a planet face, and we've elevated sustainability as our fourth pillar for our long-term strategic growth strategy.”
Deann Akins-Lewenthal, Sr. Director Global Food Safety, Mondelez International
“We do have the challenge of making sure that our own supply chain is fully net zero but that is not enough. We need to make sure that the entire supply chain scope two and three is net zero or even net positive and work with our suppliers to make sure that the ingredients that we get from them comply with certain sustainability metrics.”
Alberto Prado, Global Head of R&D Digital and Partnerships, Unilever
Veeva’s solutions can help you address sustainability by design across your operations.
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