11个供应链伙伴关系，这将使你的灵感

This article originally appeared at2degrees。

Collaboration is a hot topic on the supply chain agenda – indeed, 2degrees is devoting a whole session to discussing it at theSupply Chain Summit.To give you a little inspiration, here are a few collaborations we’ve seen over the last year.

And if you want to dive in a little deeper, you can hear Unilever, Coca-Cola Enterprises and GSKsharing their personal perspectives in March。

1. Interface, Aquafil and the ZSL: Net-works project

丢弃的一个d it lasts 600 years, not to mention threatening marine wildlife – so what can we do with these “useless masses of polynylon”? Well, Interface has an idea –feeding it into its yarn sourcing。为了实现这一目标，地毯制造商联手供应商AQUAFIL和伦敦动物学会（ZSL），协作，去年挖出了“最佳商业/非政府组织合作伙伴关系”，在道德公司的企业责任奖。

2.联合利华和叶：100％可持续菜籽油

戴夫Pendlington，联合利华采购业务的董事和可持续农业，解释了积极影响采购100％可持续菜籽油正在对供应链 - 和慈善LEAF如何帮助其访问权的农民。

3. Coca-Cola Enterprises and OpenIDEO: Crowdsourcing recycling incentives

合作是唯一的出路，说企业社会责任总监Joe Franses。联手与OpenIDEO肯定有助于可口可乐公司以其难题，众包了一堆想法，以帮助消费者提高回收利用率。上次我们谈到，Franses表示，有计划试点他们几个。

4.危机与拉帕努伊：慈善T恤

UK homeless charity Crisis teamed up with eco-fashion brand Rapanui to produce a new range of t-shirts for men and women to support vulnerable people. They are so ethically sourced that production can be traced back to the very camels that transported the cotton, and, priced at £19, all proceeds from sales go towards the charity’s work to end homelessness.

5. United Biscuits and Cargill: Driving innovation

Snack-foods firm United Biscuits (UB) has teamed up with Cargill for three years in a bid to develop products and drive innovation across Europe. UB, the company behind brands such as McVitie’s, has recently renewed its commitment to innovation in the sweet category – to update its product offering and win more customers. Meanwhile, Cargill’s reach across the whole supply chain and its strategically-located production facilities, enables it to guarantee security of supply of products in time - a sweet win-win.

6. AkzoNobel, Enerkem, Groningen Seaports, InnovationQuarter and more: Waste-to-chemical feedstock

A major Dutch partnership, featuring the likes of AkzoNobel, is working with Canada's Enerkem to explore the use of waste streams as a feedstock for chemical production. Within the next two to three years, the partners are aiming to have a plant in Delfzijl or Rotterdam and will become the first in Europe to utilize the new technology.

7.李维斯和IFC：短期融资

Jeans giant Levi’s has teamed up with the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) to offer financial incentives for garment suppliers in developing countries. The IFC’s Global Trade Supplier Finance (GTSF) program adopts tiered pricing of short-term financing for garment suppliers – offering those that score well on Levi’s own environmental and social monitoring system lower costs for borrowing.

8. Timberland and Omni United: Tires into footwear

Old tires on your feet? A new collaboration between clothing firm Timberland and the tire manufacturer Omni United will end with exactly that – launching a new轮胎的行会变成鞋底at the end of their life. The collaboration was actually conceived three years ago, when the sustainability teams from both brands came together to address a shared concern: that the tire and footwear industries are two of the largest users of virgin rubber.

9. Unilever, Tata Global Beverages, James Finlay, Twinings and more: Tea 2030

如果茶业是为了生存，它的供应链内的公司必须合作，以改善生计，应对气候变化，并吸引消费者。步骤中茶2030年，其中涉及负责世界茶叶市场的90％，7家公司中的四个。莎莉Uren，CEO未来论坛，将讨论在三月的供应链峰会茶叶2030项目。

10. SRA and Costa Coffee: New rating system

The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) has joined forces with Costa Coffee to develop a scheme that helps more than 10,000 cafés become more resource efficient. The rating is supposed to go ‘beyond the beans’, taking into account a café’s entire operations in reducing their environmental impact, treating their staff fairly, and supporting their local community.

11. Ikea, Tetra Pak and Kingfisher: FSC certification

Tetra Pak is teaming up with retailers Ikea and Kingfisher to promote the benefits of responsibly-sourced timber and to truly understand the role of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification. In a two-year program, the companies aim to develop a methodology to analyze the impact of FSC certification, enabling businesses to understand what value they derive from specifying FSC certified timber and paper through their procurement policies. “As a retailer I understand the devastating impacts of supply insecurity,” sums up翠鸟的可持续发展总监理查德必威体育2018·吉利斯。