Overview
An advanced Sustainable Procurement course that covers all aspects of sustainability and Sustainable Procurement, providing practical resources to implement Sustainable Procurement within an organization.
This course enables and fully equips your practitioners to establish and implement Sustainable Procurement. It is designed so those attending can enhance and embed Sustainable Procurement approaches within existing procurement practices. The course also provides a solid introduction to the world of sustainability, why we need it, the business case for it, and the frameworks organizations are adopting. It provides an in-depth exploration of Sustainable Procurement and what is necessary to make it happen within an organization.
Classroom
3 days
Virtual
6 x 3.5 hours
Course Content
Situation Planet Earth
- 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
Where do I start?
- 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 supply base
- 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
Making what we buy sustainable
- Determining sustainability business requirements for a category
- Sustainability value engineering
- Using Category Management
- Implementing sustainable category and product strategies
Making who we buy from sustainable
- Determining sustainability relationship requirements
- Assessing supplier impacts
- Supplier audit and assessment
- Driving supplier sustainability improvement programs
- Link to Supplier Relationship Management
Driving sustainability in our supply chains
- 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
By the end of this course delegates will be able to:
- 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