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Sustainable Procurement & Responsible Sourcing

Sustainable Procurement & Responsible Sourcing

1 Weeks
Professional Level
Certificate Included
Course Content

Available Events

Available Events
CityDatePriceStatus
TunisTunis
September 19, 2026
€3,900
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IstanbulTurkey
October 1, 2026
€3,900
Confirmed date
ParisFrance
October 9, 2026
€4,600
Confirmed date
DubaiUnited Arab Emirates
October 10, 2026
€3,900
Confirmed date
Kuala LumpurMalaysia
October 21, 2026
€4,400
Confirmed date
LondonUnited Kingdom
October 25, 2026
£4,600
Confirmed date
SingaporeSingapore
October 29, 2026
€4,800
Confirmed date
GenevaSwitzerland
November 11, 2026
€4,600
Confirmed date

Course Information

Duration

1 Weeks

Category

ESG & CLIMATE CHANGE

Level

Professional Level

Certificate

Included

INTRODUCTION

Procurement decisions influence organizational costs, environmental performance, social outcomes, reputation, and long-term operational resilience. Traditional purchasing approaches often prioritize price and delivery while overlooking broader sustainability impacts and supply-chain risks. Sustainable procurement expands decision-making by considering total value across economic, environmental, social, and ethical dimensions. Responsible sourcing ensures that suppliers, materials, and production practices meet defined standards throughout the supply chain. Effective implementation requires clear policies, measurable criteria, reliable supplier information, and collaboration across organizational functions. Procurement professionals must understand how sustainability requirements affect market analysis, supplier selection, contracts, performance management, and reporting. Organizations also need practical methods for managing human rights risks, carbon emissions, resource consumption, waste, and unethical conduct. This course translates sustainable procurement principles into practical tools that can be applied across public and private organizations. Participants gain the confidence to align procurement activities with corporate responsibility, regulatory expectations, and strategic sustainability objectives.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Participants will achieve the following objectives by this course:

  • Explain sustainable procurement principles and their strategic value for organizations and supply chains.
  • Integrate environmental, social, ethical, and governance criteria into procurement planning.
  • Develop responsible sourcing policies, standards, procedures, and supplier expectations.
  • Conduct supplier due diligence and identify sustainability risks across supply chains.
  • Apply lifecycle costing and total value approaches to procurement decisions.
  • Embed sustainability requirements into specifications, tenders, evaluations, contracts, and negotiations.
  • Design supplier scorecards, performance indicators, audits, and corrective action plans.
  • Engage suppliers in capacity building, innovation, transparency, and continuous improvement.
  • Measure procurement impacts involving emissions, waste, resources, labor, and community outcomes.
  • Develop practical implementation roadmaps for sustainable procurement and responsible sourcing programs.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This program targets a professional audience seeking to improve knowledge and skills:

  • Procurement managers responsible for sourcing strategies, supplier selection, contracting, and sustainable purchasing performance.
  • Supply-chain professionals managing supplier risks, traceability, continuity, logistics, and responsible sourcing requirements.
  • Sustainability leaders integrating environmental, social, ethical, and governance goals into procurement operations.
  • Contract managers developing sustainability clauses, performance obligations, monitoring arrangements, and corrective measures.
  • Compliance, risk, and audit professionals reviewing supplier conduct, due diligence, and control effectiveness.
  • Government procurement officials implementing responsible purchasing policies, tender criteria, and public-value objectives.
  • Finance professionals assessing lifecycle costs, total value, supplier performance, and procurement-related investment decisions.
  • Executives and consultants leading procurement transformation, supplier engagement, resilience, and sustainability improvement programs.

COURSE OUTLINE

Day 1: Sustainable Procurement Foundations and Strategic Alignment

  • Sustainable procurement principles and their organizational importance.
  • Economic, environmental, social, and ethical value dimensions.
  • Responsible sourcing concepts and supply-chain accountability.
  • Linking procurement with corporate sustainability objectives.
  • Understanding stakeholder expectations and regulatory pressures.
  • Identifying procurement categories with significant sustainability impacts.
  • Defining governance roles and cross-functional responsibilities.
  • Assessing organizational maturity and improvement priorities.

Day 2: Supplier Due Diligence and Sustainability Risk Assessment

  • Mapping suppliers, tiers, locations, materials, and dependencies.
  • Identifying environmental, human rights, labor, and ethical risks.
  • Conducting supplier screening and sustainability due diligence.
  • Evaluating country, sector, commodity, and operational risk factors.
  • Establishing supplier codes and responsible sourcing requirements.
  • Assessing traceability, transparency, ownership, and subcontracting practices.
  • Prioritizing high-risk suppliers for enhanced review.
  • Documenting findings, approvals, exceptions, and mitigation actions.

Day 3: Sustainable Tendering, Evaluation, and Contracting

  • Embedding sustainability requirements into procurement specifications.
  • Developing measurable environmental and social tender criteria.
  • Balancing price, quality, risk, sustainability, and innovation.
  • Applying weighted scoring and supplier evaluation methodologies.
  • Using lifecycle costing and total cost approaches.
  • Incorporating sustainability clauses into contracts and agreements.
  • Defining reporting, audit, remediation, and termination provisions.
  • Conducting sustainable negotiations with suppliers and contractors.

Day 4: Supplier Performance, Engagement, and Improvement

  • Developing supplier sustainability scorecards and indicators.
  • Monitoring emissions, energy, waste, labor, and ethical performance.
  • Conducting supplier assessments, audits, and performance reviews.
  • Designing corrective action and remediation processes.
  • Engaging suppliers through training, guidance, and collaboration.
  • Supporting supplier innovation and sustainable product development.
  • Managing noncompliance, escalation, suspension, and relationship risks.
  • Building long-term partnerships for continuous improvement.

Day 5: Circular Procurement, Reporting, and Implementation

  • Applying circular economy principles to procurement decisions.
  • Prioritizing reuse, repair, refurbishment, recycling, and resource efficiency.
  • Reducing carbon emissions across purchased goods and services.
  • Establishing sustainable procurement targets and measurement frameworks.
  • Collecting reliable supplier data and supporting evidence.
  • Reporting procurement outcomes to leaders and stakeholders.
  • Designing a sustainable procurement implementation roadmap.
  • Defining resources, responsibilities, milestones, controls, and success measures.

COURSE DURATION

Duration: 1 Weeks

This intensive professional program is delivered over five training days and combines expert instruction, practical exercises, supplier risk assessments, tender-development workshops, lifecycle costing activities, contract reviews, case studies, group discussions, scorecard design, and implementation planning to build practical and strategic procurement capability.

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION

The course is delivered by an internationally certified expert with extensive practical and consulting experience in sustainable procurement, responsible sourcing, supply-chain management, supplier due diligence, lifecycle costing, contract management, sustainability reporting, ethical trade, risk management, and procurement transformation.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

No, it develops the required concepts and practices progressively through applied activities.

CONCLUSION

Sustainable procurement enables organizations to create value while reducing environmental, social, ethical, and operational risks. Responsible sourcing strengthens transparency, supplier accountability, resilience, and stakeholder confidence throughout the supply chain. This course equips participants with practical methods for policy development, due diligence, tendering, contracting, monitoring, and improvement. It also supports stronger collaboration between procurement, sustainability, finance, risk, operations, and suppliers. Participants complete the program prepared to lead procurement transformation and deliver measurable sustainability outcomes.

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