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Scope 3 targets are easy to set. Someone has to actually deliver them.

Sustainable supply chain work built by someone who has designed supply chains — so your Scope 3 ambition becomes a program procurement can run, not a promise it quietly rejects.

The honest version

Sustainability set the target. Procurement has no idea how to hit it.

It's the most common failure we see: a Scope 3 target set by people who don't run the supply chain, handed to a procurement team without the data, processes, or systems to deliver it. So it gets rejected, ignored, and missed — while everyone insists it's handled.

Certificates aren't control

A few supplier questionnaires and certifications create the appearance of a sustainable supply chain — not the reality of one.

The target was never operational

Set in a department with no influence over purchasing, and no realistic path to being executed.

Nobody wants to look past tier 1

The real footprint hides deeper in the chain — and it's easier to pretend it isn't there.

Same goal, different result

Supplier theatre — or a program that actually runs.

The usual version
  • A Scope 3 target set in isolation
  • Supplier certificates and questionnaires
  • Broad, superficial "coverage"
  • Sustainability and procurement at odds
  • Owned by no one who can act
How we do it
  • Targets grounded in how purchasing actually works
  • Hotspots and key vendors, prioritised
  • Focused effort where the footprint really is
  • A program procurement can own and run
  • People, processes and systems set up to deliver
Why this is different

Built by someone who has run supply chains — not just measured them.

Most sustainable-supply-chain work is sustainability framing bolted onto a spreadsheet. This isn't. Keith was a strategy & operations manager at Deloitte focused on logistics and supply chain — so the work fits how procurement actually operates.

The tell

Clients have come back to hire New Day for supply-chain work that has nothing to do with sustainability — "while you're here, can you redesign our processes?" That only happens when the operational credibility is real.

What's included

A program procurement can actually run.

Program design

The whole architecture, built to fit how your purchasing function actually works.

Purchasing process redesign

Sustainability baked into the buying process, not bolted on beside it.

Hotspot identification

Where your footprint really sits — so effort goes to the suppliers and categories that matter.

Key-vendor engagement

Questionnaires, relationships and processes for the vendors that actually move the number.

Operationally-real targets

Goals grounded in what the supply chain can deliver — not aspirations procurement will reject.

Systems & phased rollout

The right tools selected and introduced gradually, so capacity is built, not overwhelmed.

Custom interactive tools

Hotspot dashboards, and eco-design tools that model the CO₂ impact of ingredient and material swaps.

A Scope 3 data strategy

A real plan for getting and using the data — so the numbers hold up under scrutiny.

Interactive tools

Find the hotspots. Model the swaps.

Dashboards that show where your supply-chain footprint actually concentrates, plus eco-design tools where you swap an ingredient or material and watch the carbon intensity change. Real data, real decisions.

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When it's done right

Done well, your supply chain stops being a liability and becomes a moat.

For some companies, most of the footprint is Scope 3 — which means the supply chain isn't the problem, it's the opportunity.

The data your customers are quietly asking for

When you have real ingredient- and material-level data, you can show customers exactly how to reduce their own footprint — the evidence they need, that almost no one else can give them.

A lever on your whole sector

Real clarity about your chain lets you drive change across your industry — and compete as the credible link everyone else is only gesturing at.

When this matters

This is for you if…

You've made Scope 3 commitments you now have to deliver

Targets or supplier pledges are on the record, and someone has to make them real.

Your footprint is dominated by what you buy

FMCG, food & beverage, retail, manufacturing, construction — where Scope 3 is most of the total.

ESG ratings flag your supply chain

Assessors or investors have pointed at supplier impact as a weakness to fix.

Customers are starting to ask for real data

Your buyers want credible supplier information — and "we're working on it" is wearing thin.

What good looks like

Procurement owns it. The numbers hold up.

A program procurement actually owns and runs.
Effort focused on the suppliers and hotspots that matter.
Targets grounded in reality, not aspiration.
Scope 3 that's real — and, sometimes, a competitive edge.

Made a Scope 3 promise procurement can't keep?

Let's make it real. A short, no-pressure call — we'll find where the gap is between the target and the operations, and how to close it.

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