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.
Our unique Procleus digital platform enables global procurement teams to deliver remarkable benefits and unlock significant potential from the supply base. Featuring an extensive library of digital learning modules, individual competency assessment and managed learning programs alongside the complete suite of processes, tools, templates and resources for procurement and negotiation, Procleus is the essential tool for today’s procurement teams.
High-impact courses for individuals and procurement teams, delivered either online as a series of instructor-led workshops, as classroom events or as blended learning solutions. Positive Purchasing’s trainers are renowned experts in their field, with personal experience gained from practising procurement for large organizations across the globe.
It equips and enables your team to implement Sustainable Procurement as a contributor towards overall organizational sustainability goals. Based around the unique DAPPITM 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.
Determine the sustainable procurement strategy and goals aligned to overall corporate aims and ambition for sustainability.
Determine risks, impacts and potential opportunities for what we buy, from whom we buy it and within our supply chains.
Determine the priorities for action and potential sustainability value we can realize.
Determine and plan individual category, supplier and supply chain projects.
Sustainable 5i® Category Management projects, 5S & 5A SRM projects with specific suppliers and 5S Supply Chain Management projects.
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.
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.
