Circulab Toolbox
Value Chain Canvas
Analyze your material, energy, and human capital flows to identify the risks and circular opportunities in your value chain.
The tool
What is the Value Chain Canvas?
The Value Chain Canvas lets you map all the flows of a product or service (materials, energy, water, human capital, data) to reveal structural vulnerabilities and circular opportunities that a linear analysis misses.
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Map incoming flows
Identify all the resources entering your system: raw materials, energy, water, human capital, data.
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Analyze outgoing flows
List the products, by-products, waste, emissions, and losses generated at each stage of your chain.
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Identify dependencies
Spot critical dependencies on scarce, costly, or regulatory-at-risk resources.
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Find circular levers
Identify opportunities to close flow loops, valorize by-products, and reduce losses.
Use cases
When to use the Value Chain Canvas?
Circularity audit
Assess the current level of circularity of your organization or a specific product.
Risk management
Anticipate risks linked to resource scarcity, regulation, or material costs.
CSR strategy
Lay the groundwork for a sustainability strategy grounded in the real flows of your business.
Product innovation
Identify opportunities to rethink your product design and reduce impacts.
Workshop preparation
Create a shared language across teams to facilitate collaboration on circularity challenges.
Internal training
Raise your teams' awareness of your business's systemic challenges in a visual, engaging way.
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A universal tool
No text, readable in every language.Usable anywhere in the world.
The complete method
Complete it with the other tools
Circulab's tools are designed to work together. Each one prepares the next in the circular design method.
