“our suppliers need to understand our net zero goals and sustainability obligations better”

Does that sound familiar?

Have you, your procurement, operations, HR, marketing asked one or more of these questions?

“How can we embed sustainability into our procurement strategy?” 

“What are the key sustainability and compliance expected of our suppliers?” 

“How can we help our suppliers understand our procurement due diligence process and what we are looking for?” 

“Do our suppliers understand why we are seeking carbon reduction plans, responsible recruitment and ethical sourcing?” 

“How can we ensure they can provide us with Scope 3 carbon emissions reporting and social value impact reports for us to meet our sustainability reporting?”

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At SocialValueArchitect, we help commercial real estate businesses to bridge the knowledge gap about your Net Zero Goals or your sustainability obligations with your suppliers and stakeholders enabling them to better understand and align their sustainability goals with yours. This leads to 100% improved quality of bids, supplier and stakeholder engagement. The Smarter Procurement Programmes don’t just educate; they create a collaborative framework that strengthens supplier relationships with the businesses and ensures sustainability is embedded from the outset.

benefits of Smarter

procurement Programmes

  • Tailored Programmes

    The Programmes for your suppliers and/or stakeholders are tailored to your Net Zero Goals, and/or your sustainability goals. The suppliers and/or stakeholders will understand why they are important, how their business activities and operations can impact those goals and what the expectations are from them pre- and post-tender.

  • Clear sustainability pathway

    Clear sustainability guidelines for suppliers to ensure they can comply with your sustainability parameters at pre-tender, provide clear evidence of their own sustainability strategy as part of the tender and report regularly as required post-tender. Equip suppliers with a clear roadmap for meeting contractual sustainability obligations.

  • Enhanced Reputation and Performance

    Stronger supplier and/or stakeholder relationships built on their alignment or comprehension with your ESG goals from Scope 3 carbon emissions reporting to ethical business practices. Enhanced reputation & performance through responsible supply chain management. and stakeholder engagement.

SMARTER PROCUREMENT programme features

  • The content of the Smarter Procurement Programmes will be created and designed based on information that your business provides. This can be standard, generic information or it can be specific to a tender.

    The content can include foundation training on basics such as ESG jargon-busting to understanding the basics of social value. You decide what you would like to include.

  • Smarter Procurement Programmes can be delivered in different formats - in-person training sessions, webinars, video e-learning or e-learning modules. Your business can decide how many different formats you wish for your suppliers.

  • This is a collaboration between your business and us as your communications and training partner. You can expect us to be there to support you through the design and content delivery development and post-creation.

By the end of the SMARTER PROCUREMENT PROGRAMMES,

we guarantee YOUr suppliers will be equipped to:

Accurately report on carbon emissions and develop clear statutory reporting aligned to your requirements

Identify any ethical business risks from recruitment to sourcing of products

Deliver a compelling Social Value strategy to enhance your social impact value

If you are interested in discussing how we can help you deliver a Smart Procurement supplier session, enquire now.

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