Designing a Circular Supply Chain for a Sustainable Fashion Brand

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Overview

What this challenge is about.

Design a circular supply chain for a sustainable fashion brand and model a cost-neutral take-back program. Get a verifiable certificate.

The scenario

EcoThreads sells 50,000 garments/year, average price €120. Currently, 80% of customers are in the UK. They have 3 retail stores in London and an online shop. They aim to reduce their carbon footprint by 30% by 2030.

CredentialBlockchain-anchored

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LanguageEnglish

PaceSelf-paced

The Brief

What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.

How can EcoThreads design a cost-neutral take-back program that achieves a 20% return rate within 2 years?

Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate

Design reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chains
Evaluate economic and environmental trade-offs in circular systems
Apply life cycle assessment (LCA) principles
Develop partnerships and business models for sustainability

Program Fit

Where this fits in your program.

Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Master · Operations

Strong alignment

This challenge maps to Operations and Supply Chain Management at the Master level. It sharpens the same practical skills your coursework expects — but in a real industry context with actual constraints and deliverables.

Skills

Skills you'll demonstrate.

Each one shows up on your verified credential.

Careers

Career paths this challenge builds toward

Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:

Career paths this builds toward

Canonical roles

Operations Analyst
Why did orders ship late last week? Why is one warehouse twice as efficient as another? Operations analysts answer questions like these by getting close to the data, the people doing the work, and the gap between how a process is documented and how it actually runs. The role is part SQL, part anthropology — querying transactional systems, then walking the floor or hopping on a call to understand what the data is missing. Students grow into it by building fluency in data tools alongside genuine curiosity about how organizations work. The strongest analysts deliver findings that lead to a fixed process, not just a slide, and write runbooks the next person can actually use.
Product & Operations

One more thing

You can put a credential on your CV by Friday.

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