Sustainable Procurement and Supply-Chain Management

Sustainable procurement and supply-chain management are key elements of sustainable business management, addressing environmental and other reputational risks “upstream” of your organisation. EuGeos works with clients to develop effective sustainable procurement policies and practices integrated with their mainstream purchasing activities.

Sustainable Procurement

Reducing the environmental and social burdens associated with the goods and services bought into the organisation is an essential element of sustainable business management. This can be pursued through three channels:

  Supplier selection and monitoring
  Supplier improvement
  Product screening and selection

One or more of these channels will be appropriate for your organisation’s circumstances. Each places its own demands on the organisation’s resources.
Supplier selection, monitoring and improvement together constitute “environmental supply-chain management”.

Green Purchasing Tools

Whichever channel is pursued, there are a range of tools available to help implement green (or sustainable) purchasing programmes:

  Risk and/or impact assessment tools to set priorities
  Supplier assessments & evaluations
  Environmental product performance criteria
  Environmental product information

Developing an effective Green Purchasing Programme involves selecting the tools from this list that meet the needs of your organisation, and adapting them to fit the way your purchasing function operates. The process can be extended to incorporate the pursuit of social and ethical goals.

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EuGeos can lead you through this process. By ensuring that practical options for moving forward are identified and incorporated into specifications or supplier improvement projects, we help you to “buy in” good environmental performance.

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