Radical Supply Chain Transparency with Stora Enso

Stora Enso is committed to developing products and technologies based on renewable materials. In many cases, our products provide a low-carbon alternative to products made from fossil-based or non-renewable materials.

Today, our solutions are in the building, retail, food and beverages, manufacturing, publishing, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, confectionary, hygiene, and textiles. Tomorrow, we believe there is a potential to produce anything made with fossil-based materials from a tree.

Materials and products sourced by Stora Enso include, for example, pulp and paper for recycling (PfR), chemicals, production machinery, energy, fuels, spare parts, maintenance, logistics, and IT services. We go through a thorough evaluation process for each supplier to understand our value chain, including carbon emissions generated by the operations of each supplier. As supply chains are complex by nature, communicating and understanding their net effect is challenging. We want to summarize and visualize the net results transparently and simplify for our stakeholders on a platform that provides them with information and an interactive approach to sustainable sourcing decisions.

Our vision at Stora Enso is to communicate complex supply chain sustainability topics, including carbon emissions, to our customers in a simplified yet informative and transparent way.

Therefore, we are looking to partner with innovators and startup companies with total solutions or technology components to realize our vision of transparency. We are looking for solutions that help us visualize, assess, and quantify the supply chain and its complexity for different product categories, including, for example, recycled pulp and paper, chemicals, and fillers. We also look for solutions that include interactive functionality for stakeholders to zoom into a particular category or connection to Stora Enso products.

We are ready to explore different approaches to improve our sourcing visibility, even very creative ones. Example solutions can include, for example, a visual categorization of other sourcing elements with performance data and target values. However, the answer we are looking for could also map and visualize data points missing in the value chain.