ROLLS-ROYCE
as well as supporting us in wiring that throughout the business so that it touches everything from processes to policies and contracts , and allows us to fully embrace things like sustainability , for example ."
Sustainability has risen to the top of Godfrey ’ s agenda . “ I personally spend as much time on that topic as I do anything else ,” he says . And for good reason . Sustainability has become a business imperative intertwined with the other demands placed on supply chains , whether it ’ s “ a big boat stuck in a big canal ”, geopolitical uncertainty , or the ongoing ripple effects of new viral variants . Godfrey alludes to Blackrock chief Larry Fink ’ s famous annual letter , and his recent assertion of the ‘ triple bottom line ’: profit , people , planet . “ The point that I want to reiterate is exactly that ' s the work that I ' m doing , and the work that we ' re doing at Rolls-Royce , is about those things ,” he says .
Godfrey is a member of the International Aerospace Environmental Group ( IAEG ), an industry body founded by Rolls-Royce and some of its closest rivals and customers , such as GE , Safran , Boeing and Airbus .
“ The reason for joining that and forming what ' s called Working Group 11 is to say , ‘ We have to take sustainability seriously across our supply chain and this again has to be a digitally enabled approach to have the right breadth and impact to be effective ,” he says .
The core purpose of the IAEG is to harmonise and standardise critical aspects of aerospace as an industry , sustainability being just one example .
“ What we shouldn ' t do is all ask our suppliers to do something different . We can all agree that this is the way we ' re going to approach this topic ,” Godfrey says . “ We ’ ve done it before in aerospace – with safety and quality – but it ' s the first time I ' ve seen what could be viewed as a competitive
supplychaindigital . com 151