Our leaders speak on circular economy during Climate Week NYC

Getting to circular: Seeing the connections

In a circular economy, resources stay in the product cycle loop at their highest value for as long as possible. Making this happen will take a leap beyond today’s definition of “green” into a full rethink of supply chains into a broad ecosystem whose subsectors all operate in coordination. Tomorrow’s supply chain relationships will need to define success from this circularity point of view.

There are many “ways in” to talk about circularity: resource allocation, optimization of consumption, design of waste/reuse practices, or end of life management. Each of these topics reveals tremendous opportunities to innovate and change the paradigm. Organizations pursuing 2030 and 2050 goals for carbon, energy use, and other metrics will include reimagined supply chains to succeed. The reward for doing this right? A more resilient supply chain, deeper supplier partnerships, more effective resource allocation, and more sustainable support for organizational growth.

Deloitte’s Chris Ruggeri (Sustainability leader), Dan Kinsella (leader in Extended Enterprise) and Naba Sengupta (leader in Sustainable Supply Chains) explore this vision of circularity through the lens of connecting and enabling sustainable supply chains.

Chris Ruggeri is a principal with Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP and Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory’s Sustainability, Climate & Equity leader. With more than 30 years of experience, Chris works closely with leaders across a wide range of industries and disciplines to help them effectively develop and implement ESG-based approaches drawing on innovative thinking, technologies, and collaborations.

Dan Kinsella serves as the US and Americas extended-enterprise and third-party assurance leader in Deloitte & Touche LLP. He combines business and technology experience to help clients create and enhance their extended enterprise through cost and revenue recovery services. He specializes in creating efficient exchange of risk information synergies in the marketplace. Dan leads Advisory Service Delivery Transformation, helping clients’ efforts in shared services and outsourcing environment improvements.

Naba Sengupta is a senior manager in risk intelligence for Deloitte & Touche LLP. Naba helps clients in a variety of industries derive value from available data and has helped companies launch successful products, protect the food-supply, and more.