Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan
Farmed Oats Supply Chain Sustainability
- Financial - Improving the economic viability of the grower rotation by reducing commodity market price risk and providing specialty premiums for higher value differentiated products.
- This analysis should include the potential for introducing a high protein Chick Pea variety into grower rotations
- Environmental — Reducing the carbon footprint of traditional oat ingredient supply chains originated in Montana’s Golden Triangle by improving processing efficiency and therefore freight efficiencies on a per pound of finished product basis
- Social — providing our customers and ultimately consumers with a healthy and affordable product. We need to Identify and then quantify all sustainability aspects of our supply chain.
- A power point that communicates the sustainability story
- A tool or tools that
- track the impact over crop seasons
- replicate the analysis on other supply chains
Resources ( 6)
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