Course : Sustainable Procurement: Reconciling purchasing performance and CSR issues

Sustainable Procurement: Reconciling purchasing performance and CSR issues

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How to integrate the economic, environmental and social dimensions of purchasing and develop comprehensive, sustainable performance? At the end of this training, you will be able to initiate the progress of the sustainable procurement process in order to optimize costs, reduce risks, and create value for your company.


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Price : 1430 € E.T.
  2d - 14h00




How to integrate the economic, environmental and social dimensions of purchasing and develop comprehensive, sustainable performance? At the end of this training, you will be able to initiate the progress of the sustainable procurement process in order to optimize costs, reduce risks, and create value for your company.

Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
  • Understand the challenges of the CSR approach and its consequences on procurement
  • Learn the frameworks, standards and regulations, in particular the new ISO 20400 standard
  • Know the tools for deploying sustainable procurement
  • Identify priorities and define an action plan adapted to your environment

Intended audience
Buyers, purchasing managers.

Prerequisites
Operational experience in purchasing.

Course schedule

Implications of the CSR approach to procurement

  • The ISO 26000 standard and the seven core questions.
  • Impacts of CSR deployment on purchasing policy and strategies.
  • Responsible purchasing approaches: environmentally sound, fair trade, solidarity purchases, etc.
  • The guidelines of the ISO 20400 standard "Sustainable Procurement".
Case study
Identify the themes covered in a sustainable procurement approach based on the purchasing policies of several organizations. Fun quiz on the different approaches to sustainable procurement.

Preparing the process: diagnosis and roadmap

  • Mapping CSR issues and risks by procurement and supplier families.
  • Prioritizing based on the company's commitments, the CSR issues of the purchasing family, and the supplier.
Group discussion
Discussion workshop: issues, risks, prioritization criteria.

Defining accurate needs and the specifications

  • Defining accurate needs: Economic, environmental, social and stakeholder criteria.
  • Formulating and integrating CSR criteria into the specifications.
  • Becoming familiar with the life cycle approach.
  • Implementing the total cost.
Exercise
Draft purchasing clauses: Integrate the life cycle approach and multi-criteria analysis. Total cost calculation.

Evaluating and selecting suppliers

  • Designing a supplier self-assessment questionnaire.
  • Identifying areas for improvement and implementing a continuous improvement process.
  • Identifying suppliers committed to CSR: labels, certifications, management systems, etc.
  • Declaring your commitments in an online selection process.
Exercise
Preparing a supplier audit.

Securing the purchasing relationship

  • Adopting a Sustainable Procurement Charter.
  • Defining a code of conduct for purchasing: the rights and duties of buyers.
  • Ten commitments of the Responsible Supplier Relations Charter.
  • Contractualizing progress plans.
  • Measuring performance: Building sustainable procurement indicators.
Role-playing
Workshop to consider the actions to be taken to implement the ten commitments.


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