Skip to main content
Climate
Search

Main navigation

  • Climate 101
    • What We Know
    • What Can Be Done
    • Climate Primer
  • Explore
    • Explainers
    • Ask MIT Climate
    • Podcast
    • For Educators
  • MIT Action
    • News
    • Events
    • Resources
  • Search
MIT

Main navigation

  • Climate 101
    • What We Know
    • What Can Be Done
    • Climate Primer
  • Explore
    • Explainers
    • Ask MIT Climate
    • Podcast
    • For Educators
  • MIT Action
    • News
    • Events
    • Resources
  • Search
PostFebruary 28, 2020

How Sustainable Strategy Fits Into the Digital Revolution

picture

Authors: Alexis Bateman and Suzanne Greene
MIT Sustainable Supply Chains

The fourth industrial revolution, or “Industry 4.0,” is a driving force in today’s economy. Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain and the internet of things are at the center of this new world — growing connections between supply-chain partners, driving data-based decision making, and improving efficiency across industries. With the right mindset and planning, these technologies can be leveraged to advance supply-chain sustainability, too.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) envision a future that balances aspirational goals for society like education and poverty eradication with environmental goals for climate and wildlife. Today’s supply-chain managers hold a key position to align their practices with these goals and the “triple bottom line”: people, planet and profit.

Bottom line: The transition toward “Industry 4.0” offers a number of opportunities to rethink and reinvent global supply chains with sustainability in mind. The future of supply chains will be digital, low-carbon, circular and fair.

Read more at https://www.supplychainbrain.com/articles/30896-how-sustainable-strateg….

Sby Suzanne Greene
Topics
Finance & Economics
Industry & Manufacturing

Related Posts

PostJuly 4, 2025

Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials

MIT News
Scientists are striving to discover new semiconductor materials that could boost the efficiency of solar cells and other electronics. The pace of innovation is bottlenecked by the speed at which researchers can manually measure important material properties, but a fully autonomous robotic system developed by MIT researchers could speed things up.
PostJuly 2, 2025

3 Questions: How MIT’s venture studio is partnering with MIT labs to solv...

MIT News
David Cohen-Tanugi has been the venture builder for Proto Ventures’ fusion and clean energy channel since 2023.
PostJuly 1, 2025

VAMO proposes an alternative to architectural permanence

MIT News
VAMO (Vegetal, Animal, Mineral, Other), is an ultra-lightweight, biodegradable, and transportable canopy designed to circle around a brick column in the Corderie of the Venice Arsenale — a historic space originally used to manufacture ropes for the city’s naval fleet.
PostJune 27, 2025

Nth Cycle is bringing critical metals refining to the U.S.

MIT News
A rendering of Nth Cycle's modular refining system called "The Oyster."

MIT Climate News in Your Inbox

 
 

MIT Groups Log In

Log In

Footer

  • About
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Accessibility
  • Contact
MIT Climate Project
MIT
Communicator Award Winner
Communicator Award Winner