An in-person facilitated workshop is a powerful method to unite key stakeholders simultaneously, concentrating on reducing food waste throughout a specific supply chain.
Here’s why this collaborative approach is most effective:
Collaborating with your supply chain partners is a powerful way to holistically reduce total food waste, not just shift food waste from one part of the chain to another.
It’s also a great opportunity to work with your suppliers to problem solve on a common challenge and to determine solutions and actions that can often benefit multiple businesses.
In our experience, raw material suppliers, service providers for storage, transport & logistics and retail customers have been enthusiastic to contribute to ‘whole of supply chain’ solutions through facilitated workshops.
If you need more information on how to do this, our blog – “How to best reduce food waste in your supply chain” will give you further insights on the basis of our approach.
Get in touch if you’d like us to come onsite and have us work directly with your team.
By prioritising procurement, your business can reduce waste at its origin to gain the maximum financial and environmental benefits throughout the supply chain.
Strategies to reduce food waste through procurement could include:
We’ll come onsite to lead a workshop, involving your suppliers, service providers and customers to collaborate on solutions to reduce food waste across your entire supply chain.
The most effective outcomes arise when a diverse group of supply chain stakeholders work together to identify food waste at each stage and develop shared strategies to minimise it.
We’ve conducted workshops with an Australian vegetable processor to unite supply chain stakeholders in collaboratively mapping out their supply chains, pinpointing problem areas and developing solutions to systematically reduce food waste at every stage.
Some of the opportunities we’ve identified in workshops have included:
