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Overview

If your organisation wants to reduce its carbon footprint and boost its sustainability reputation, the best place to start is with your supply chain. Re-evaluating your relationships with suppliers can play a powerful role in your decarbonisation strategy and reduce long-term risks and costs.

Attend our course Integrate Sustainability into Your Supply Chain Management to gain a new understanding of best practices in supply chain sustainability.

Leave the day knowing how to select, evaluate and monitor new suppliers and how to ensure your current suppliers align with your sustainability goals, Work with our expert facilitator to define your organisation’s specific key performance indicators you’ll use to be confident in long-term success.

Receive specialist advice on how to produce a new Supplier Code of Conduct that puts sustainability at the heart of your supplier relationships.

 

 

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Gillian King
Procurement Professional and Trainer

Gillian King is a highly experienced procurement professional and trainer, with over 20 years’ experience in global procurement and supply chain management, working for government and multinational corporations in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Her sector experience is as a procurement professional, initially with the Civil Service in the UK Home Office and later as a global category leader for Zurich Financial Services, where her group annual spend was in excess of $400 M.

More recently she has provided consultancy and training to international government and ‘Blue Chip’ organisations in Abu Dhabi and Singapore, specialising in ...

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Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the value created through sustainable supply practices
  • Build a comprehensive sustainability code of conduct for suppliers
  • Evaluate and monitor current and future suppliers
  • Integrate sustainability performance indicators into your contracts and supplier relationships

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Agenda

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09:25 - 09:30

Registration

09:30 - 10:00

Trainer Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives

10:00 - 10:45

Understanding Why and How to Implement Sustainability into the Supply Chain

  • Discuss the value created by integrating sustainable practices into your supply chain
  • Introduce the ESG factors that play a role in determining the sustainability of your supply chain processes
  • Gain an overview of the current and future legislative context
10:45 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:00

Implementing a Supplier’s Code of Conduct

  • Learn the importance of building a code of conduct for suppliers
  • Determine the factors that potential suppliers should be evaluated on:
    • Ethical considerations
    • Environmental impact
    • Practicality and cost
  • Discuss how to build a comprehensive and bespoke set of criteria that suits your organisation’s specific requirements and complies with the latest legislative measures
12:00 - 13:00

Engaging Suppliers in the Process

  • Understand the best practices for communicating with your existing suppliers to address and resolve any sustainability issues they might have
  • Recognise when it’s feasible and appropriate to work with suppliers to improve their practices and when it’s the right time to start looking for an alternative
13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:00

Supplier Contract Management and Performance Evaluation

  • Discuss how to best build your sustainability requirements into contracts
  • Define the KPIs that should be contractually obligated to ensure supplier compliance with your organisation’s sustainability mission
  • Understand how to best ensure that suppliers are committed to a consistent long-term approach to sustainable supply
15:00 - 16:00

Evaluating and Monitoring Suppliers

  • Ensure that sustainable practices are being maintained by suppliers
  • Learn best practices to measure supplier performance
  • Discuss the need for comprehensive long-term monitoring of performance and understand what steps can be taken if performance falls below expectations
  • Understand the technologies and techniques your organisation can utilise to trace and record performance
16:00 - 16:15

Round-Up and Key Takeaways