With the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, now is a perfect time to move your business to an eco-friendly setup. With the right software, modeling your company off the concept of a circular economy is a brilliant way to re-establish the resilience of your company’s supply chain logistics, all while ensuring a more sustainable setup that will help future generations.
What is a circular economy?
First coined in 1988, the concept of a circular economy is not a recent idea, but it was not until the early 2000’s that the model was first utilized by China to improve its industrial and environmental policies. Traditionally, most organizations followed a linear development, where you make a product, use it to solve a task, and then dispose of it. However, as the title would suggest, a circular economy is designed around reusing and recycling products to help eliminate waste, allowing the environment to regenerate.
While sounding similar to sustainability or green economy, a circular economy goes one step further, attempting to transform the entire economy into one that is better for the environment rather than just for a single corporation or area. Much like those models, your business can also benefit from taking an eco-friendly approach, from saving thousands a year on energy and shipping costs to getting appreciation from your environmentally focused consumers.
How Katalyst can help
Naturally, it is nigh impossible for a single business to circular economy model just on their own, but there are some easy ways to become more sustainable thanks to services that Katalyst Software Services Limited provide. Benefiting your business and setting a good example for other companies, here are some examples of how Katalyst and CloudCelero can help you.
SAP
Many companies have been taking on the challenge of building a more sustainable economy, one of the leading examples being SAP with their suite of business management software. While already proving useful for companies through its processing of production and customer satisfaction data, SAP also sports a wide range of additional services that can help you build an eco-friendlier business.
With their portfolio of sustainability-specific products, SAP can give you the transparency to see exactly where your raw materials come from, or determine the carbon footprints of your products based off your data. SAP also has plans to release their Responsible Design Production service later in 2021, which will allow for companies to see the impact their products would have on the environment, from the materials needed to produce it to the downstream impact it would have, all from the design stage. This means that you can easily become and stay more sustainable from the beginning of your supply chain process, saving you hundreds of hours and dollars in the long run.
CloudCelero ERP and WMS
Having a well-organized supply chain and warehouse will give any business a leg up on the competition, especially when making your company more eco-friendly. CloudCelero’s ERP and WMS software can help you make a big difference in the way your business interacts with the environment.
CeleroERP offers a wide variety of opportunities to better organize and analyze your company’s data, even allowing incorporation into Quick Books and eliminating duplicate information. Business owners can now act far more responsibly when processing products and materials, reducing waste and leftovers with the shipping and customer data thanks to this ERP software.
CeleroWMS will also be indispe nsable when it comes to reducing the amount of excess waste your company puts out. CloudCelero sports a dynamic location organizer, allowing up to 30% more inventory to be stored in your warehouses, reducing the need for you to expand. It also automatically evaluates the shipment process for you, giving you the most efficient methods of transportation to ensure you make the smallest carbon footprint impact possible.
Additionally, CeleroERP and CeleroWMS are both cloud-based software, which means you remove the need for on-site servers and computers to save and monitor your data. According to a study done by Amazon, by freeing up this power needed to run and cool the servers, cloud-based software saves up to 84% of electricity compared to running your own setup.
Go green with Katalyst Software Services Limited
While good for the environment and your business, it is often easier said than done to implement such dramatic changes to your company’s structure. At Katalyst Software Services Limited, our team of experts can walk you through your sustainability roadmap to help your company contribute to a circular economy in the best possible way.
Schedule a consultation with us today, and check out our other blogs for more ideas on how to become an eco-friendly seller!
