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Abstract Environmental sustainability analyses of end-to-end food supply chain (SC) operations and processes need to be performed regularly to accommodate reconfiguration opportunities arising in the global business landscape. This research scrutinises the pertinent literature and identifies the challenges of data availability, data obsolescence, computational complexity, and data specificity that associate to well-established environmental assessment methodologies, and proposes a stepwise approach that considers key players and processes for generating “close to real-time snapshots” of the main environmental hotspots for the focus firm. The applicability of the proposed systematic approach is demonstrated via an implementation at a high resource-intensive sector of significant scale, i.e., the UK poultry industry. Overall, this research contributes to the SC environmental sustainability management domain by guiding the mapping and identification of environmental hotspots across end-to-end networks of operations in the form of a stepwise framework, and through articulating several research propositions.