Sainsbury’s has partnered with food and sustainability data and technology firm Foodsteps to measure and reduce the environmental impact across its supply chain.
Foodsteps will build a granular, auditable data ecosystem capable of assessing Sainsbury’s extensive product portfolio. The tech firm will bring together its science-based, product-level data with its ability to collect supplier data at scale through its AI-enabled Supplier Hub.
This will allow Sainsbury’s to gain higher-quality carbon data that will help it to track emissions reductions.
It forms part of the grocer’s ‘Plan for Better’ strategy, after Sainsbury’s previously made a public commitment to achieve net zero across its value chain by 2050.
“As the food system faces mounting pressures from climate change and wider global uncertainty, it’s more important than ever that we work together to drive the resilience and sustainability of our supply chain,” said Sainsbury’s director of sustainability Ruth Cranston.
She added that it would allow the supermarket giant to advance its ambitions to “protect and restore nature” and help to “drive real and lasting change for people and the planet”.
Foodsteps MD Stephanie Lambert said: “Building a resilient food system requires the infrastructure to make collaboration scalable. We are inspired by Sainsbury’s commitment to using our granular, science-based data and the Foodsteps Supplier Hub to drive decarbonisation across their entire supply chain.
“By meeting suppliers where they are and providing an automated route for high-fidelity data, we are proving that deep scientific rigour can be applied at the speed and scale the industry urgently needs.”
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