Sustainable Procurement – Advanced

Course Content

• Situation Planet Earth - why the world needs sustainability: the six impact areas
• Introduction to sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility
• The business case for sustainability
• Sustainability frameworks for improvement

• Introduction to Sustainable Procurement process
• Setting the direction for Sustainable Procurement (strategy, goals and targets)
• Translating goals to areas of focus
• Mobilizing a Sustainable Procurement program
• Managing sustainability project communications to maximize success

• Assessing the full supply base - what we buy, who we buy from and our supply chains
• Impact assessment and Hot Spot Analysis
• Using AI to provide insight and drive sustainability
• Sustainability risk assessment
• Sustainability as an opportunity to create new value
• Making all our procurement projects sustainable
• Data gathering, analysis, and building a fact-based sustainability program plan

• Determining sustainability business requirements for a category
• Sustainability value engineering
• Using Category Management
• Implementing sustainable category and product strategies

• Determining sustainability relationship requirements
• Assessing supplier impacts
• Supplier audit and assessment
• Driving supplier sustainability improvement programs
• Link to Supplier Relationship Management

• Supply and Value Chain Network (SVCN) mapping
• Approaches to fully understand a SVCN
• Prioritizing supply chain action and how to drive improvements up the supply chain
• Making Sustainable Procurement part of what we do

Learning objectives

• Describe what sustainability is and the imperative for action
• Describe what Sustainable Procurement is and how it aligns to corporate objectives
• Develop a business case and internal proposal for a Sustainable Procurement project
• Describe the different frameworks for sustainability and the importance of relevance and significance
• Incorporate sustainability within procurement, Category Management, or Supplier Relationship Management projects
• Mobilize and manage Sustainable Procurement projects
• Conduct a sustainability risk and impact assessment for an area of spend, supplier or supply chain
• Determine sustainability business requirements and develop a sustainability roadmap for a category
• Develop sustainability requirements for a supplier relationship
• Describe the approach for audit and assessment of a supplier for sustainability
• Develop a supplier sustainability improvement program
• Conduct supply and value network mapping to assess sustainability impacts and determine an improvement plan