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Sustainable Supply Chain Foundations Course
Understand sustainability, ESG and green supply chains from scratch — and learn to use AI as your everyday co-pilot.
Created bySkillmint .
Last updated 7/2026
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What you'll learn
- Explain what a supply chain is and trace any everyday product from raw material to customer using the Source–Make–Move–Deliver model
- Define sustainability and ESG in plain language, and apply the triple bottom line (people, planet, profit) to real decisions
- Identify where a product's biggest environmental and social impacts come from — including carbon footprints, GHG Scopes 1, 2 & 3, water, waste etc.
- Understand what AI and generative AI are, and how they're realistically used to make supply chains more sustainable
- Use AI assistants hands-on to research materials and suppliers, summarise sustainability reports, and build practical tools
- Recognise the benefits, limits and risks of AI (including bias, "hallucinations" and data privacy) and apply golden rules for using it responsibly
- Spot greenwashing and tell apart look-alike claims like "carbon neutral" versus "net-zero"
- Complete a real-world capstone: a full sustainability assessment of a product of your choice
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Course content
7 sections • 27 lectures • 1h 13m total length
Requirements
- No programming or AI experience needed. You'll learn everything about AI from scratch, step by step.
Description
Disclaimer: This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
Supply chains touch everything you buy — your coffee, your clothes, your phone — and they're where the vast majority of a company's environmental and social impact actually hides. That's why "sustainable supply chain" skills, now supercharged by AI, have become one of the fastest-growing, most in-demand capabilities in business today.
This course is your friendly, jargon-free starting point. In seven short modules of narrated, illustrated video lessons, you'll go from "what even is a supply chain?" to confidently explaining how products move through the world, where their impact comes from, and how to make them more sustainable — with a little help from AI.
We learn through real stories and everyday examples: we follow a cup of coffee across the world, picture the supply chain as a relay race, unpack the t-shirt on your back, and look at real events like the Suez Canal blockage. Every term is explained the first time it appears, so you're never left behind.
The second half is where it gets exciting. You'll meet artificial intelligence in plain English, then actually use AI assistants — writing effective prompts, researching suppliers and materials, summarizing long sustainability reports in seconds, and building your own reusable sustainability checklist. You'll finish with a hands-on capstone project: a complete sustainability assessment of a real product you choose.
No background in business, sustainability, or technology is required. If you've ever bought something, you already know enough to begin.
By the end, you'll have the vocabulary, the frameworks, and the practical AI skills to take your first confident steps into a sustainability or supply-chain role — and a clear path to go deeper.
Who this course is for:
- Complete beginners and students who are curious about sustainability, ESG, or supply chains and want a clear, confident foundation
- Career changers looking to break into the fast-growing field of sustainability and green supply chains
- Professionals in procurement, logistics, operations or administration who want to add sustainability and practical AI skills to their toolkit
- Lifelong learners who want a gentle, example-led introduction before moving on to more advanced, technical courses