Sustainability is a major focus area for organizations, whether driven by choice, customer expectations, or by current and emerging legislation.
Many are also realizing the opportunity sustainability offers as a source of new competitive advantage.
Achieving sustainability is a challenge for any organization and the supply base is the most challenging area of all. With typically around 60% of all sustainability initiatives involving the supply base in some way, understanding the areas we need to address and driving in change for what we buy, who we buy from, and back up our supply chains, requires a fresh approach to procurement and supply chain management.
How it works
Sustainable Procurement is how an organization can translate its obligations, goals and ambition for sustainability into the practical actions and initiatives necessary in the supply-base to realize these. With the organization’s direction of travel firmly in mind, Sustainable Procurement begins with thorough assessment of the risks, impacts and opportunities in the supply base. From here, a prioritized improvement and development roadmap provides a coordinated approach for the individual projects and initiatives that will drive sustainability for what we buy, within our key suppliers, and throughout some entire supply chains.
Sustainable Procurement is not a new methodology, but rather, it’s a new layer that allows us to apply traditional strategic approaches such as Category Management, Supplier Relationship Management and Supply Chain Management through the lens of driving sustainability outcomes, whilst balancing cost objectives.
OMEIA® Sustainable Procurement process
Positive Purchasing OMEIA® Sustainable Procurement is a unique approach. Built upon the foundations of our proven 5i® strategic Category Management and 5A/5S Orchestra of SRM® methodologies, it enables organizations to make meaningful changes in terms of supply-side sustainability.
It equips and enables teams to implement Sustainable Procurement as a contributor towards overall organizational sustainability goals. OMEIA® provides a best practice methodology, enabling cross-functional teams to determine and implement sustainable category and supply strategies, as well as product, category, supplier and supply chain improvement programs.
Implement OMEIA® and achieve supply-side sustainability
Supply-side sustainability is the most challenging because it is only possible when deep sustainability know-how combines with advanced procurement practice and the ability to drive change. This change is required across what we buy, our suppliers and in our supply chains.
At Positive Purchasing we help you build a high performing team of procurement and sustainability experts, equipped with OMEIA® and the tools to drive Sustainable Procurement initiatives and deliver strong results. That is why we are the partner of choice by some of the world’s biggest names to make Sustainable Procurement happen.
Ambition
Determine sustainable procurement goals from wider organizational direction of travel for sustainability.
Train
High-impact instructor-led training from Introduction level for your stakeholders, to Advanced training for your practitioners, with options to train your execs too.
Get ongoing learning and development with individually tailored elearning on Procleus.
Equip
Equip your team with a suite of OMEIA® process, tools, resources and templates, available through our Procleus platform.
Enable & Embed
Governance for program success including governance set-up and program management, supply-side sustainability risk, impact and opportunity assessment, and sustainability team coaching.
Results
Get in Touch
If you’d like to discuss how our training, platform and package options could work for your organization, please click below or call us on +44 33 00 94 0000.
Sustainable Procurement Training Courses
We combine our Sustainable Procurement process and Linked from graphic above toolkit with high-impact training for procurement and sustainability teams.
Available either as classroom training at your location (in most countries worldwide), as live, online, instructor-led workshops, or as an elearning pathway on Procleus. Our training will equip your team with the resources and capability to determine the supply-side risks, impacts, and opportunities against overall corporate sustainability goals. It will also equip your team to determine and implement improvement programs that will realize these goals.
Our trainers are renowned experts in the field, with personal experience gained from practicing procurement and sustainability for large organizations around the world.
The platform for strategic procurement and negotiation
Procleus® is the platform for strategic procurement and negotiation. It is the essential digital ecosystem for any procurement function and configurable to include Category Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Red Sheet® negotiation, Sustainable Procurement or Buyer’s Toolkit modules, and for each, options for methodology and complete toolkit, learning academy, intelligent workflow tools, competency assessment and status dashboard.
Enable Success & Embed Results
Effective Sustainable Procurement programs that deliver wide ranging sustainability benefits demand top-down support, good governance and the right foundations for success.
We can help to put in place the structure needed to implement a powerful Sustainable Procurement program across your organization and deliver the coaching and support needed to make it a success. We make implementing Sustainable Procurement easy with our mobilization and success packages - choose from the following according to what you need vs have in place already.