Circularity, supply chain, and biodiversity conservation
Improve value chain transparency for greater due diligence and circularity
Services
Sustainability Services
Ecosystem-led Approach to Power Your Sustainability Strategy
Overview
The relentlessness of climate change underscores the need for sustainable and circular supply chains.
Our planet has reached a point where it can no longer support a unidirectional movement of products and materials—from raw material to waste. This flow burdens and depletes natural systems, resulting in climate change and biodiversity loss. Climate risks, regulatory mandates, and resource scarcity drive the urgency for adopting sustainable supply chains, operations, and biodiversity conservation. This market was valued at $3 Bn in 2024 and is projected to grow to $8 Bn by 2027.
Sustainability regulations and ESG pressures are rising fast, making sustainability a key source of competitive advantage. Integrating circularity and sustainability into value chains enables enterprises to optimize resource use, minimize waste, and enhance product stewardship, driving operational efficiency and sustainable economic growth.
Solution
TCS offers integrated solutions to transform supply chain operations, accelerate the transition to a circular economy, and support biodiversity conservation.
We advise on sustainability strategy and provide full-tech enablement for enterprises to drive real impact, accelerate time-to-value, and adhere to global standards.
Sustainable supply chains
Sustainable supply chain services: TCS offers comprehensive material traceability, performance monitoring, and action-oriented tracking across the supply chain, enabling businesses to anticipate and respond effectively to sustainability challenges.
Supplier sustainability playbook: Eliminate supply chain friction with our modular solutions – such as supplier impact assessment, supplier performance scorecard, responsible sourcing framework, and more – to streamline strategic initiatives, address sustainability goals, and drive measurable impact across enterprise supply networks.
Sustainability assurance and impact verification services: TCS’ automated measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) processes, which include certification advisory services, automated data collection, and pre-built reporting templates, enable accurate impact verification, compliance, and actionable sustainability insights.
Sustainable business operations as a service (SBOaaS): Embed sustainability into core business functions such as demand-supply planning, supplier engagement, employee training, and related back-office processes with advanced optimization and cognitive technologies.
Circularity
Circular process and compliance services: TCS’ advanced process mining techniques identify value chain disruptions such as in return processes, refurbishment and repair, recycling and disposal, and warranty and claims, driving efficiency for a sustainable enterprise.
Circularity assessment and advisory services: Our circularity diagnostics and baseline assessment, maturity scoring and benchmarking, waste and resource efficiency audits, and business model efficiency assessment help quantify circularity attributes across the value chain, allowing enterprises to drive circular product promotion, build compelling business cases, and enhance stakeholder engagement.
Circularity marketplace solutions: TCS helps build a digital marketplace to enable the exchange of used parts, e-waste, and certified products while driving circular practices through cataloging, inventory management, end-to-end traceability and seamless product discovery.
Digital product passport: We work with enterprises to establish product transparency and traceability, material and component information, environmental impact data, as well as repair, recycle, and end-of-life instructions to deliver meaningful and measurable circularity impact.
Biodiversity conservation
We offer a range of solutions that enhance the efficiency, sustainability, and inclusivity of nature-based value chains in the food sector, including agriculture, livestock, forestry, and fisheries. By leveraging advanced technologies such as IoT, AI-ML, agentic AI, blockchain, satellite and drone image analytics, TCS aims to address critical challenges like low productivity, environmental degradation, and market inefficiencies.
Benefits
TCS’ solutions and services enable enterprises to seamlessly embed sustainable practices and circular strategies into their supply chains.
This allows companies to drive cost savings, explore new revenue streams, strengthen brand loyalty, and establish regulatory leadership. Our sustainable supply chain and circularity services encourage enterprises to shape circular strategies and integrate sustainability solutions with business operations to enhance visibility, compliance, and deliver measurable value.
Additionally, TCS’ solutions and services empower stakeholders across the food value chain – farmers, cooperatives, agri-finance and agri-insurance institutions, processors, food-centric CPG companies – while promoting sustainable food systems and economic resilience.
With TCS’ solutions and services, organizations can:
- Improve resource efficiency, extend product lifespan, reduce waste, and cut production costs by reusing components
- Reduce reliance on virgin resources, lower waste disposal costs, and meet recycling regulations
- Mitigate supply chain risks through end-to-end visibility and better supplier engagement
- Restore ecosystems, enhance soil health, and create biodegradable products
- Boost brand reputation and customer loyalty
The TCS Advantage
TCS is a responsible business by design. Our commitment to net zero by 2030 and sustainable business practices underpin our ability to guide global businesses authentically and credibly.
We bring the following differentiators to the table:
Tech-led sustainability: At TCS, we blend sustainable economy principles with advanced digital technologies(IoT, AI, blockchain, digital twins) to create smart, data-driven sustainable ecosystems.
Cross-industry expertise at scale: Our multi-domain expertise (manufacturing, retail, automotive, energy, telecom, healthcare, among others), powered by global footprint — enables sustainable transformation tailored to each sector.
End-to-end maturity to monetization journey: TCS shepherds the entire lifecycle – maturity assessment ➔ material flow analysis ➔ LCA/EPD validation ➔ sustainable business model innovation ➔ roadmap execution — ensuring sustainable business value.
Global standards leadership: We align assessments with top frameworks (ISO 14040/44, Ellen MacArthur CE Metrics, EU Taxonomy) to meet both regulatory and market expectations globally.
Unmatched advisory and execution capability: Unlike traditional consultants, TCS not only advises but also builds and operationalizes sustainable digital platforms, take-back systems, tracking solutions, and reporting mechanisms.
Innovation mindset: Through TCS Pace PortsTM, Innovation Labs, and TCS COINTM (Co-Innovation Network), we co-create sustainable solutions with customers and partners — accelerating innovation and time-to-value.
Quantified impact focus: TCS uses sustainability quotient scoring, waste and resource efficiency audits, and full lifecycle metrics to deliver measurable, quantified outcomes — enhancing ESG scores and investor attractiveness.