October 26, 2009

What are the enablers and barriers to getting more managers, supply companies and customers involved in making supply chains more sustainable, more quickly? What measures have to change and how can these barriers be overcome?

These are among the issues that will be raised on December 2, 2009 at IMD during the first of series of the Forum for Corporate Sustainability Management Roundtables. Prior to the event, an informal dinner will take place on December 1, 2009.

By bringing global companies’ senior supply chain managers together and offering them a platform for cutting edge dialogue oriented towards finding innovative solutions, this first CSM Roundtable aims to bring added-value to the Sustainable Supply Chain Best Practices debate and will also define an agenda for moving forward with further roundtables. It will be facilitated by IMD Professor Corey Billington and Dr. Aileen Ionescu-Somers, Director and Deputy Director respectively of the CSM.

During the roundtable sessions on December 2, participants will be able to:

• Discuss current challenges of sustainable supply chains and come up with solutions
• Participate in a dialogue regarding upcoming environmental challenges in supply chains based on an NGO workshop with WWF
• Learn from each other as companies share their specific supply chain challenges.

If you are a CSR/sustainability manager or a manager responsible in any way for rendering supply chains more sustainable, join us as part of this very tight knit and focused group. Even better, convince one of your mainstream supply chain managers to come with you to this event. 

Download the agenda and registration form. For more information, please contact: kay.richiger@imd.ch.

The Forum for Corporate Sustainability Management (CSM) is a research and learning initiative at IMD with a membership of global companies, all working towards integrating sustainability into corporate strategy. Amongst many other benefits, the advantages of membership include access to events focused on cutting edge dialogue and finding innovative solutions in the area of corporate sustainability management. (Non-CSM member companies will be charged CHF 500 to attend this event.)