Sustainability is fast becoming the single biggest focus area for organizations, whether driven by choice, customer expectations, or by 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.
Positive Purchasing 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. We combine our Sustainable Procurement process and toolkit with online or classroom training courses to equip your team with the resources and capability to determine the supply-side risks, impacts, and opportunities against overall corporate sustainability goals. We then help implement improvement programs that will realize these goals.
It equips and enables your team to implement Sustainable Procurement as a contributor towards overall organizational sustainability goals. Based around the unique OMEIA® process, our Sustainable Procurement program 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.
Direction for sustainability and specific procurement goals.
Assess and prioritize risks, impacts and opportunities.
Validate priorities, determine and evaluate projects.
Deliver initiatives, manage change, drive to completion.
Embed change, measure value and seek next wave of value.
Individual and team-wide assessments to develop a measure of core strategic procurement and negotiation capability. Assess individual role-based skills and get tailored and managed learning and development pathways through the Procleus learning academy.
Assessed via online self-assessment, or a fully managed interview-based program, we offer structured insights into personal and team-wide capabilities and provide the basis to create a targeted learning and development roadmap.
Strategic sourcing and negotiation toolkits featuring full process and extensive suite of reference materials and resources to support each step, plus online and downloadable templates for:
Build powerful category strategies with the 5i® Category Management sourcing and 5i® Lite toolkits, now with sustainability embedded at every step!
Unlock value in your supply base with the 5S Orchestra of SRM® methodology including the 5A Strategic Collaborative Relationship (SCR) process.
Build your confidence in negotiation outcomes to deliver outstanding results with our Red Sheet®, Red Sheet Lite and Red Sheet Nano negotiation planning toolkits.
Realize your purchasing power with the 5D Power Buying® process featuring practical step-by-step guidance for every stage of buying.
Realize supply-side sustainability and equip and enable your team to meet organizational sustainability goals with the OMEIA® Sustainable Procurement process.
A comprehensive range of digital learning modules and managed learning programs to measure and develop individual and team-wide procurement capability, end-to-end. If you need something bespoke, we can create custom learning modules or programs to reflect specific organizational needs.
Vast library of digital learning modules for Category Management, SRM and negotiation with self-study and on-demand video for all core toolkits and activities.
Managed time-bound team learning programs, with options from ‘digital learning weeks’ to 12-month supported programs.
We can also uplift team capability with instructor-led training. Discover our programs here.
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Capella creates powerful category strategies underpinned by the proven 5i® method to deliver game-changing value from the supply base: secure supply into the future, deliver cost savings, reduce supply-side risk and drive sustainability.
Ruby enables you to create winning negotiation strategies using the leading Red Sheet method, allowing globally dispersed teams to seamlessly work together. You can even live role play with Ruby!
Built on our unique 5D Power Buying® process, the Buyer’s Toolkit provides a simple step-by-step approach to buying well. The platform covers every stage of buying and combines all the best-practice tools and theory for professional buying and negotiation into a straightforward framework that can improve the result of a purchase at any scale.
We offer high-impact courses for individuals and procurement teams. These courses can be delivered online as a series of instructor-led workshops, in a classroom setting, or as blended learning solutions. Our trainers are renowned experts in the field, with personal experience gained from practicing procurement for large organizations around the world.
Our Sustainable Procurement packages are ideal for any organization seeking to develop Sustainable Procurement approaches and enable and equip the organization to identify where to focus efforts. They can then help to determine and put in place new sustainable sourcing arrangements for priorities in terms of key areas of spend with important suppliers and in your supply chains.
Two packages are available – the first is for organizations already practicing strategic procurement using 5i® Category Management and 5S/5A Supplier Relationship Management where Sustainable Procurement can be embedded into these approaches. The second package is for organizations starting out with strategic procurement.
The Sustainable Procurement Comprehensive Package includes everything you need to mobilize and implement Sustainable Procurement, together with key strategic procurement approaches.
The Sustainable Procurement Accelerator Package includes everything you need to augment existing 5i® Category Management and 5A/5S SRM approaches with Sustainable Procurement and kick-off a new Sustainable Procurement program in your organization.
Sustainable Procurement explains the vast topic of sustainability and the imperative to act for procurement and supply chain practitioners. Based around the OMEIA® Sustainable Procurement process, this book provides a step-by-step and highly practical methodology that embeds sustainable procurement into existing proven procurement approaches. It also provides some crucial new tools that equip and enable those in this field to drive highly effective supply-side sustainability.
Written by our CEO and leading procurement and sustainability expert, Jonathan O’Brien, this practical guide outlines how to establish sustainable procurement as a key strategic enabler to reduce supply-side risk and understand and drive in programs of action to respond to detrimental impacts in the supply base. It also explains how to seize the incredible future opportunity that the next generation supply base can offer to unlock new competitive advantage, and brand, social and environmental value from sustainable procurement.
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