순환 공급망의 확장

In collaboration with
Bain & Company and
University of Cambridge
Circular Transformation
of Industries:
The Art of Scaling
Circular Supply Chains

W H I T E P A P E R
N O V E M B E R  2 0 2 5

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Contents


Foreword                                                     3

Executive summary                                              4

Introduction: Setting the course                                    6

1 Key challenges: unpredictability, volatility and linear thinking             7

2  Setting clear priorities: products, customers and markets              10

3 Design options: building circular operations that work                16

4  Enablers: catalysts for circular supply chains                       22

Conclusion                                                   25

Appendix: Case studies                                         26

Contributors                                                  32

Endnotes                                                    34





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November 2025    Circular Transformation of Industries:
                 The Art of Scaling Circular Supply Chains


   Foreword





                    Thom Almeida                         Xavier Houot                     Hernan Saenz
                       Lead, Circular Economic                   Partner, Sustainability &        Senior Partner and Global Head, Performance
                  Systems, World Economic Forum          Responsibility, Bain & Company          Improvement, Bain & Company





                              Jagjit Singh Srai                   Kyriakos Triantafyllidis
                          Professor, Department of              Head, Growth and Strategy,
                         Engineering, University of                  Centre for Advanced
                   Cambrid