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Circular Supply Chains

How to Build the Future of Sustainable Operations

Explore the future and application of circular operations so that you can build a roadmap towards a circular supply chain.

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EAN: 9781398620674

Edition: 1

Published: 03 Jun 2025

Format: 234 x 156

448 pages

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How can your supply chain drive sustainability and competitive advantage?

Circular Supply Chains by Deborah Dull is a practical guide for supply chain managers, analysts and strategists looking to shift from linear processes to circular, regenerative operations. As climate pressures rise, materials grow scarce and stakeholder expectations increase, this book shows how to embed circularity into every stage of your supply chain.

Written for professionals ready to turn ambition into action, it bridges theory and execution through strategic models, digital tools and real-world examples that support transformation at scale.

You'll learn how to:

- Map, plan and optimize supply networks for circular outcomes
- Apply digital tools like repair demand sensing and radical transparency
- Integrate regenerative principles into sourcing, planning and logistics
- Use checklists and frameworks to drive measurable change

With a clear path from today's systems to future-ready supply chains, this is the essential resource to help mid-career professionals lead with resilience, innovation and impact.

Start building circular operations that deliver on sustainability, efficiency and long-term value.

Themes include: circular economy, regenerative supply chain, sustainable sourcing, logistics innovation, digital supply tools, supply network planning

About the authors

Deborah Dull is the founder of the Circular Supply Chain Network and Managing Partner at Trillium Digital Services. She has held various supply chain roles at organizations including Zero100, GE Digital, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Microsoft. She has extensive experience in product development, consumer goods, retail, digital, frontier markets, global development and software for the industrial world. She is based in New York and London.

Deborah Dull

Section - ONE: Forming circular supply chains from key concepts;
- Chapter - 00: Introduction;
- Chapter - 01: Events leading to today’s economy;
- Chapter - 02: The pioneers of circular thinking;
- Chapter - 03: Where circular economy meets supply chain;
- Chapter - 04: Building tomorrow’s circular supply chain;
Section - TWO: The capability to repair at scale;
- Chapter - 05: People and culture capabilities – repairing at scale;
- Chapter - 06: Process capabilities – orchestrating circular flows to repair at scale;
- Chapter - 07: Technology capabilities – digital enablement to repair at scale;
- Chapter - 08: Industry standards capabilities – common language for circularity to repair at scale;
- Chapter - 09: Governance capabilities – ensuring circular success to repair at scale;
Section - THREE: The capability to manufacture in-market;
- Chapter - 10: People and culture capabilities – manufacturing in-market;
- Chapter - 11: Process capabilities – orchestrating circular flows to manufacture in-market;
- Chapter - 12: Technology capabilities – digital enablement to manufacture in-market;
- Chapter - 13: Standards capabilities – common language for circularity to manufacture in-market;
- Chapter - 14: Governance capabilities – ensuring circular success to manufacture in-market;
Section - FOUR: The capability to circulate locally;
- Chapter - 15: People and culture capabilities – circulating locally;
- Chapter - 16: Process capabilities – orchestrating circular flows to circulate locally;
- Chapter - 17: Technology capabilities – digital enablement to circulate locally;
- Chapter - 18: Standards capabilities – common language for circularity to circulate locally;
- Chapter - 19: Governance capabilities – ensuring circular success to circulate locally;
Section - FIVE: The capability to collaborate transparently;
- Chapter - 20: People and culture capabilities – collaborating transparently;
- Chapter - 21: Process capabilities – orchestrating circular flows to collaborate transparently;
- Chapter - 22: Technology capabilities – digital enablement to collaborate transparently;
- Chapter - 23: Standards capabilities – common language for circularity to collaborate transparently;
- Chapter - 24: Governance capabilities – ensuring circular success to collaborate transparently;
Section - SIX: Conclusion;
- Chapter - 25: Next steps;

Reviews

David Watson, Managing Director, RL People

This comprehensive guide transforms how we think about talent in circular supply chains, offering practical frameworks for the skills that organizations need to thrive in this new paradigm. The capability assessment tools provide an invaluable roadmap for building the workforce that will lead tomorrow's regenerative economy.

Gerald Jackson, Vice President Supply Chain Product Strategy, Oracle

A groundbreaking exploration of how technology enables circular transformation of supply chains, with real-world examples that bridge theory and practice. The maturity models for digital enablement provide technical leaders with clear pathways to support circular innovation while delivering measurable business value.

John Holm, Convening Partner, Circular Supply Chain Coalition & Visiting Faculty, Bard College Sustainability MBA Program

This essential guide brings the community dimension of circular supply chains to life through practical frameworks and actionable insights. By mapping capabilities across people, process and technology, it provides the roadmap organizations need to create circular systems that benefit both business and society.

Dr Dennis A. Vegter, Researcher & Lecturer at NHL Stenden University

This book bridges academic theory with real-world application, making it an essential read for anyone interested in circular supply chain management. With the capability framework, this book addresses the critical challenges of circular supply chains and provides a common language for advancing circular operations.

Scot Case, Retail Sustainability and Circularity Strategist

This book is an essential resource for industry and retail executives exploring the future of the circular economy. It provides clear insights that connect every part of the industrial ecosystem. By breaking down the specific skills, processes and technologies required, Deborah accelerates every reader's ability to generate significant value from rapidly emerging circular value chains.

Rich Bulger, Author of Going Circular

This book brilliantly expands our understanding of reverse logistics by mapping the full spectrum of capabilities needed for truly circular supply chains. The maturity models offer organizations clear pathways to transform their operations while creating value through every stage of the product lifecycle.

Douglas Kent, Executive Vice President of Corporate and Strategic Alliances, ASCM

A landmark contribution that aligns with ASCM's work on circular supply chain standards. By mapping the capabilities across people, process, technology, metrics and governance for orchestrating alignment, this book provides practitioners with exactly what they need to implement and scale circular operations.

Vivian Tai, Director of Innovation, GS1 US

A groundbreaking work that elevates standards from technical footnotes to strategic enablers of circular transformation. The capability frameworks provide organizations with clear pathways to implement standardized approaches that build trust while accelerating material flows across industry boundaries.

Ian McClure, Executive Director, GAME Change

An invaluable resource that bridges academic insights with practical implementation, providing exactly what regions need to develop circular manufacturing capabilities. The structured maturity models offer educational institutions and industry partners a shared framework for building the skills and systems that power local circular economies.

Brijesh Krishnan, Circular Economy Leader, Cummins

Through this book Deborah Dull brings fun and reality to circular supply chain learning. The real-world examples with practical approaches to achieving industrial circularity transforms abstract concepts to concrete capabilities.

Peter Evans, Circular Tech Advisor and Co-Chair MIT Platform Strategy Summit

A very timely analysis of how platforms can boost circular supply chains at scale, supported by capability frameworks that organizations can implement today. The practical assessment tools make this an indispensable guide for anyone seeking to build the collaborative systems we need to power circular economies.

This comprehensive guide transforms how we think about talent in circular supply chains, offering practical frameworks for the skills that organizations need to thrive in this new paradigm. The capability assessment tools provide an invaluable roadmap for building the workforce that will lead tomorrow's regenerative economy.
David Watson, Managing Director, RL People

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