A single garment factory subjected to 740 audits in one year. Suppliers spending 16 days a month on compliance paperwork . Workers laboring in factories where temperatures can reach 130 degrees. Companies expect sustainability outcomes. They do not, however, inspect or operationalize them. At Sourcing Journal’s “Road to 2030: Dealing with Detours” forum on Thursday in New York City, those conditions accentuated a widening gap between sustainability commitments and operational reality. In a keynote address, Colin Browne, former CEO of Cascale and now president and chief operating officer of David Yurman, framed the challenge through a familiar metaphor. On a clear night in April 1912, two Titanic lookouts scanned the horizon without binoculars—the tool they needed locked away, the key carried off by an officer reassigned at the last minute. The ship, he said, was built for momentum, not course correction. “They saw the iceberg,” Browne said during his keynote.…