Sustainable procurement, from a clause to a real choice
Sustainable procurement is where a strategy meets the supply chain. Done well it moves suppliers. Done as a box to tick it becomes a clause nobody follows.
What sustainable procurement means
It is buying that takes environmental and social consequences seriously, from clear criteria to suppliers who move with you, and follow-up that holds. The point is choices that hold further down the chain, not a clause in the tender that nobody checks.
Why criteria often fail to steer
A criterion without follow-up is a wish. When nobody checks after the award, the supplier reverts and the clause becomes decoration. We help you write criteria that are workable and that you are able to follow once the contract is signed. See also from plan to practice.
This sits under the theme Assign
Our Embedding Framework is a wheel of thirteen themes and fifty-eight practices that together decide how deeply sustainability is anchored in an organisation. Buying that carries your standards into the supply chain sits under the theme Assign: putting sustainability into the decisions where money and mandate meet.
Want to see where your organisation stands on Assign, and on the other twelve themes, take the Embedding Scan. Forty minutes, thirteen themes, a structured read of your culture.
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