Stop talking, start doing: Making sustainable procurement real

By Procura

A significant proportion of most organisations’ revenue is re-spent through its supply chain. On average, supply chain emissions are 5.5 times greater than the emissions from their direct operations.

As such, the procurement function is a key enabler for organisations who want to raise their environmental and ethical profile and executive leaders must utilise their procurement functions and engage their supply base if they want to become more sustainable.

Those who are doing this well are reaping the rewards of being viewed as sustainability leaders in their market, however, there are many barriers to achieving Sustainable Procurement.

Procura have undertaken a Sustainable Procurement Pulse Survey which tested the state of play of Procurement Leaders across a range of geographies and sectors. The results were insightful.

Read more on their website.