This workshop aims to equip delegates with the tools, skills and knowledge to realise the potential opportunities and benefits from sustainable and ethical procurement, whilst effectively managing a range of associated risks.
Introduction
This intensive workshop explores how to uncover the potential opportunities in procuring sustainably, and navigate through the challenges that an organsiation may encounter in sourcing products and/or services in today’s complex trading environment.
This course is designed for:
The workshop will benefit managers responsible for policy and/or a portfolio of suppliers, and/or clients, and who wish to transition to sustainable and ethical Procurement policies and practices that will deliver the “right” product or service, with overall positive “economic value”, whilst pro-actively managing the associated risks.
Course structure
A practical two-day workshop consisting of nine session involving exercises, case studies, presentations and trainer-facilitated discussions. Each of the sessions will be led by an experienced facilitator and will feature the key principles and practical methods which may be used in the supplier relationship process, together with practical case study sessions to maximise the transfer from the workshop to the workplace.
Benefits of attending
Attendance will enhance the capability of delegates to develop and execute sustainable and ethical procurement policies and practices that meet both legal and regulatory standards, as well as the corporate values of their organisation.
As well as this delegates will gain three key benefits from attending:
- More likelihood of designing and implementing a sustainable procurement programme based upon best practices, and contemporary regulations and legislation
- More awareness of both opportunities to behave in a sustainable way and the challenges faced in designing and implementing a sustainable procurement programme
- Less likelihood of repeating common errors in behaving sustainably, or being frustrated by internal and/or external barriers
Key learning outcomes
- Describe the fundamentals of sustainable and ethical procurement, with examples from their own spend portfolio
- Reconcile how sustainable and ethical procurement fits into the overall business strategy of the organisation
- Analyse the organisation’s spend portfolio and conduct an opportunity analysis to identify categories which may be candidates for sustainable and ethical procurement
- Design RFPs, RFQs and contracts which incorporate sustainable and ethical procurement as decision making criteria
- Develop and/or review the organisation’s sustainable and ethical procurement policies and practices to deliver both tangible and non-tangible benefits
Course Content
Understanding the fundamentals of sustainable and ethical procurement
- Sustainable and Ethical Procurement
- The changing societal landscape
- The changing corporate landscape
- The changing markets
- The potential returns
- The potential “minefields”
- Sustainable and ethical procurement in the extended supply chain
- Overview of the legislative and regulatory framework surrounding sustainable and ethical procurement
Understand where and how sustainable and ethical procurement fits into the overall business strategy of the organisation
- Sustainable and ethical procurement as part of the overall business strategy of an organisation
- Sustainable and ethical procurement as part of the organisation’s risk management strategy
- Identifying suppliers and clients that are “aligned”
- Identifying the benefits of working with these strategic partners
- Realising the benefits, managing the risks
Assessing the organisation’s spend under sustainable and ethical procurement guidelines
- Understanding where can you make the greatest improvements and generate the largest return
- Engaging with the interested parties
- “Selling” the benefits of sustainable and ethical products and services
- Understanding issues around Total Lifecycle Analysis, Total Cost of Ownership, Fitness for Purpose, Recycling, Re-use, End-of-Life and Proper Disposal
- Relationship to Work Health and Safety, and Environment Health and Safety
- Making the transition
The strategic and tactical approach to sustainable and ethical procurement
- Understanding the strategic value of sustainable and ethical procurement to maximise value and minimise risk
- Understanding the tactical execution of sustainable and ethical procurement to strengthen relationships, improve security of supply and deliver long term value
How to leverage sustainable and ethical procurement as both the purchaser and supplier
- Sustainable and ethical procurement as a purchaser
- Sustainable and ethical procurement as a supplier
- Building and strengthening relationships
- Collaborative engagement and the potential benefits
How to structure RFPs, RFQs and construct contracts for sustainable and ethical procurement
- The essentials of RFP’s and RFQ’s as the purchaser
- Clearly articulating specifications for products and services
- Assessing potential suppliers, and their goods and services
- Setting-up, monitoring and managing contracts
Coaching suppliers how to structure responses to RFPs and RFQs for sustainable and ethical procurements
- The essentials of RFP’s and RFQ’s as the supplier
- Clearly assessing specifications for products and services
- Assessing potential client, and their expectations over the life of the contract
- Understanding how you will be measured
Select, deliver, manage and monitor contracts for the sustainable and ethical procurement of goods and services
- How to rate the sustainability and ethical performance of, and then select, a potential supplier
- How to select the sustainability and ethical performance of the selected goods and/or services
- Making the transition
- Managing and monitoring the contract
Position and leverage the organisation’s sustainable and ethical procurement policies and practices to deliver both tangible and non-tangible benefits
- Identifying the “tangible” economic and business benefits of sustainable and ethical procurement
- Identifying the “non-tangible” benefits of sustainable and ethical procurement
- Leveraging these benefits of sustainable and ethical procurement in the market place
- The continuous vigilance around managing the risks
