We offer accredited sustainable procurement training to facilitate the integration of effective sustainable procurement practices into your organization.

The accredited training programs can be tailored to your needs and cover a range of topics areas including:

• principles of sustainable procurement
• business case for sustainable procurement
• sustainability issues for organizations
• impacts and challenges related to sustainable procurement
• understanding stakeholder needs
• setting priorities

• identifying priorities based on spend analysis

• an organizational benchmarking exercise to identify the status of an organization’s sustainable procurement practice against best practice
• identifies key steps required to deliver a holistic sustainable procurement strategy

• more comprehensive development of an action plan based on the outcomes of the organizational benchmarking exercise

• consensus building exercise to clearly define the scope, objectives and goals related to individual sustainability impacts (e.g., waste, climate change, social inclusion, etc.)
• objectives can then be used to develop a clear set of objectives for procurement managers to interpret into their own categories.
• highlights how procurement can be used as a tool to deliver against an organization’s sustainability objectives

• to identify specific high profile purchases and construct a risk analysis of each product
• leads to an understanding the distinction between inherent and residual risk, developing mitigation measures, embedded monitors and indicators

• focuses on developing a methodology for measuring outcomes in terms of sustainability (e.g., CO2 reduction and waste diverted from landfill)
• enables attendees to understand how best they can put in place metrics to measure sustainability impacts and improvements as a result of their new strategies