Jonathan O'Brien

Sustainable Procurement (eBook, ePUB)

A Practical Guide to Corporate Social Responsibility in the Supply Chain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The business case for sustainability is clear and organizations are responding to the imperative to act. But with 50-70% of the change needed involving the supply base, procurement and supply chain functions are critical to success.

Sustainable Procurement explains how procurement and supply chain professionals can develop existing best practice approaches to make supply side sustainability a reality. Based around the OMEIA® Sustainable Procurement process, this book provides a step-by-step and highly practical methodology that embeds sustainable procurement into existing proven procurement approaches. It also provides crucial new tools that equip and enable those in this field to drive highly effective supply-side sustainability.

By exploring the current landscape and the business case for sustainability, Sustainable Procurement makes sense of how we can translate good ambition into prioritised grass roots level change. Guidance is offered on how procurement can help redefine what an organisation does based upon what needs to change in its supply base. There are extensive resources to help determine hot spot risk areas, assess suppliers, and determine and prioritise where to direct our precious resources. It also provides new models for 'sustainable value engineering' to help organisations transform what and how they buy. Written by leading procurement expert and best-selling author, Jonathan O'Brien, this practical guide outlines how to establish sustainable procurement as a key strategic enabler to reduce supply-side risk and drive action to respond to detrimental impacts in the supply base.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kogan Page eBook
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781398604698
• Artikelnr.: 67620714

Autorenporträt

Jonathan O'Brien is the CEO of Positive Purchasing Ltd, the international procurement and negotiation consultancy and training provider, and is based in Plymouth, UK. With over 30 years of experience, he has helped global organizations increase their purchasing capability through training, education and working directly with practitioners and executive teams. He is also the author of Category Management in Purchasing, Negotiation for Procurement and Supply Chain Professionals, Supplier Relationship Management and The Buyer's Toolkit, all published by Kogan Page.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter
00: Introduction; Section
ONE: Our current situation; Chapter
01: Situation planet Earth 1
the planet; Chapter
02: Situation planet Earth 2
people; Chapter
03: Homosapiens
extinct in a hundred years?; Section
TWO: The sustainability imperative; Chapter
04: Introducing sustainable procurement; Chapter
05: The business case for sustainable procurement; Chapter
06: Setting the direction for sustainability; Section
THREE: Sustainable Procurement; Chapter
07: Assessing the supply base; Chapter
08: Prioritizing risks, impacts and opportunities; Chapter
09: Evaluating potential sustainable procurement projects; Chapter
10: Making what we buy sustainable; Chapter
11: Driving sustainability in our suppliers; Chapter
12: Audit and assessment of suppliers; Chapter
13: Driving sustainability in the supply chain; Chapter
14: Making it happen, measuring outcomes and driving success; Chapter
15: Appendices