SUSTx Procurement - 2022 Agenda
30th November 2022
Exhibition Floor
ROOM: Main Plenary
As reported, the effects of climate change will cost companies up to $1.6 trillion per year by 2025 (Forbes). Two-thirds of the average company’s environment, social, and governance footprint lies with suppliers (McKinsey).
Embedding sustainability in your procurement operations will help you achieve your Sustainability targets and reduce your impact on the environment. By addressing social issues and human rights and managing and educating your supply chain, you will provide your organisation with better efficiency and higher competitiveness and reputation.
ROOM: Main Plenary
Today we’ll listen to business experts and Procurement leaders who take bold ideas into action to make a decisive difference in your organisation’s procurement and supply chain process and performance.
- How procurement leaders and decision-makers are integrating sustainable principles into their organisations
- Addressing the growing demand for sustainable products and services: What we have to do?
- From investors to policymakers: Managing stakeholders
ROOM: Main Plenary
Almost every organisation has made net-zero pledges or commitments. These net-zero ambitions will likely increase a company’s cost base, as the availability and supply of green products in the supply chain will not be sufficient to meet the enormous demand in the foreseeable future. This will make the trade-off between cost, quality and time even more complex. Procurement, therefore, needs to develop strategies to secure access to green solutions and incentivise supplier commitments to carbon reductions.
We will highlight three key building blocks of carbon reduction strategies:
- Getting transparency of your carbon data
- Facilitating trade-offs and setting incentives
- Aligning incentives with the company’s net-zero trajectory
Exhibition Floor
ROOM: Main Plenary
- Defining the value and measuring the social impact of our procurement
- Going beyond climate change: Tackling economic and workforce inequality
- Is a socially responsible procurement increasing your organisation’s competitiveness?
ROOM: Main Plenary
- The current state of businesses delivering on their ESG and sustainability commitments
- The role of the board, executive management and gaps in sustainable strategy implementation
- Road to net zero: Experimenting to scale organisational impact
- Moving from doing less harm to doing good: Embracing (social) innovation in supply chains- Examples from human capital management
ROOM: Main Plenary
- Contracts and suppliers’ performance and management: From sourcing to exit
- Supplier diversification
- How Sustainability is impacting on UK’s SMEs for good
- Engaging your supply chain: Aligning stakeholders to your organisation’s sustainability goals
Exhibition Floor
ROOM: Premium Room
The race to Net Zero is accelerating. More and more companies are turning towards their procurement teams to manage the organisations’ climate change risk and carbon efficiency with a growing focus on Scope 3 value chain emissions. But how do you do it?
This practical and pragmatic workshop will provide procurement professionals with a step-by-step guide to tackling this challenging problem.
Leading Carbon expert Mike Tournier will explain:
- The business imperative for Change
- Carbon Footprinting for Procurement Professionals
- Setting meaningful short and long-term goals
- How to overcome the barriers to getting started
- What, Why and How to Measure yours and your supply chains GHG emissions
- Value Chain Mapping and Screening
- Setting sustainability procurement targets
- Critical success factors for Net Zero transition
ROOM: Specialist
More time should be spent working with reducing emissions than manually estimating them!To give yourself more time for action, tools can help you with the obvious parts of carbon footprinting, automating the process of matching each and every purchase with the best-fitting emission factor. Yet, the process needs to be fully transparent. We want to give a tour to the inner workings of how we have automated this process, which also includes the option of increasing the accuracy over time by combining top-down and bottom-up methods.
This hands-on session will help procurement professionals learn how they can make the carbon footprinting process faster, more accurate, and transparent.
We’ll cover:
- Overcoming barriers to scope-3 actions
- How to create a baseline in just 1 day with calculated emissions per purchase
- A roadmap to GHG emission estimation precision: from spend-based to supplier-specific methods
- Learnings from company cases
- How emission transparency delivers actionable insights
ROOM: Main Plenary
A third of the large global companies have set a net zero target. Yet, if the right actions aren’t taken, 93% of companies will miss their targets. How do you ensure you’re doing the right things?
This practical presentation will go through what the leading European companies are doing in carbon calculation and reduction with clear examples that you can take forward with your organization.
We will NOT spend time explaining:
- Why we need to take action on scope 3 emissions (you already know that!)
We WILL explain:
- What the CO2 calculation and reduction roadmap for leading companies looks like
- What strategies leading CDP companies like Hikma, Deutsche Telekom, and ISS have taken to calculate and reduce their emissions
- What solutions and data providers for measuring CO2 emissions are out there
- How to select the right tool (and when to build it yourself)
- Most importantly: How to make sure you are on the right path
5 mins for attendees to move back to the Main Plenary
ROOM: Main Plenary
- London is embracing the economic and environmental potential presented by a transition to the circular economy, lead by innovation from small and medium sized businesses (who make up 99% of businesses in London)
- To scale impact, there is an opportunity for large organisations (corporates, public sector organisations) to use their significant purchasing power to shift demand for circular products and services
- Present the case study of City of London & LB Westminster, who sought to encourage circular SMEs into their construction supply chain, and highlight resources to support circular procurement
ROOM: Main Plenary
- Explore SAP and Barclaycard’s innovation partnership
- Seamless payments with Virtual Cards
- Integration across SAP’s Business Technology Platform and Ariba solutions
- Supporting supplier diversity goals
Exhibition Floor
ROOM: Main Plenary
- How are tech and innovation shaping the way of your sustainable procurement
- Keeping up with the Industry 4.0
- Tech, innovation and e-procurement
ROOM: Main Plenary
ROOM: Main Plenary