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We have two courses available
Sustainable Procurement for Professionals®
This is our premium sustainable procurement training course and is recommended for purchasing professionals and those seeking a world-class level of knowledge. It is a highly comprehensive learning program covering all of the key areas of green, ethical and sustainable procurement. Through approximately 11 hours of online education and optional self-testing, it presents a broad range of procurement tools, techniques, and ideas applicable to all kinds of organizations dealing with all kinds of environmental and social circumstances. Taking the course should result in acquiring a bigger picture perspective on the full measure of tools and techniques available to the procurement professional to improve the sustainability (financial, environmental, and social) performance of their purchasing actions. It should also result in acquiring a better understanding of how to use procurement to further major organizational strategic goals relating to sustainability.
Sustainable Procurement Essentials®
It is recommended that those who are from professions other than purchasing take the Sustainable Procurement Essentials® course instead. The Sustainable Procurement Essentials® course covers most of the topics that Sustainable Procurement for Professionals® does, but at a higher level through approximately 6 hours of online education and optional self-testing.
Sustainable Procurement Essentials® is recommended for contract management, property management, project management, energy
and environmental management staff, maintenance managers, functional managers, specifiers, CSR report writers, and others who have an interest in starting a green procurement or sustainable procurement program in their organization, but who may not know where and how to start or what resources and tools are required.
These professionals are not likely to want as much detail on many of the subjects covered. Sustainable Procurement Essentials® is also suitable for staff new to the purchasing profession, or for college and university students who are studying to become purchasing professionals. This course is suitable for organizations of all sizes, public and private sector, as well as for non-governmental, charity, and start-up organizations.
This is a professionally narrated slide-based e-learning course consisting of over 600 slides. It is a condensed version of the
Sustainable Procurement for Professionals® course for those who are more interested in a higher-level overview rather than all of the details. It covers most of the topics in the Sustainable Procurement for Professionals® course, but not all.
Sustainable Procurement for Professionals - Online Training Course
This is a professionally narrated slide-based e-learning course consisting of over 900 slides. It comes with 23 downloadable PDF attachments that provide additional helpful information and advice as well as links to examples. These PDF attachments are not provided in the Sustainable Procurement Essentials course.
It is expected that, as a result of taking this course, you will have an improved knowledge and understanding of:
- How to justify, plan and implement a green procurement or sustainable procurement program within your organization.
- How to start small to achieve quick wins that will demonstrate clear and quantifiable financial and environmental and social benefits to your organization.
- How to grow your program confidently over time, using the tools and techniques presented.
- How to structure your own organization and purchasing documents to maximize your chances of success, what challenges to expect, and how best to deal with them.
- How to manage your own suppliers from a sustainability point of view and how to work with them in moving the supply chain to a green and ethical basis.
- What software tools are available to improve your productivity.
- How to evaluate and mitigate risk in the supply chain.
- How to create a sustainable procurement program that will be respected by senior management, customers, suppliers and stakeholders alike.
Assess the quality of the course for yourself – please feel free to download a free sample chapter of the course from the link below.
Sample Chapter
Interested in downloading a free sample chapter from the course in PDF format? Please click the button below to download the Introduction chapter (no sign-up is required).
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Buy Now Price: 550.00 Canadian Dollars (plus applicable taxes)
Please click the button below to purchase access to this course for 180 days.
What topics does the Sustainable Procurement for Professionals course cover specifically?
- What is green procurement?
- What motivates organizations to start practicing green procurement?
- What is sustainable procurement?
- What are the fundamental guiding principles of sustainable procurement that you should always follow?
- Why is sustainable procurement not meant to be an ‘add-on’ or an alternative to traditional procurement practices?
- What are the financial, environmental and social reasons to practice sustainable procurement that will beef up your business case?
- What are the risk management reasons and how will these support corporate risk management?
- How should you structure your own organization to maximize the success of a sustainable procurement program? What is the full range of available tools and techniques here
- What are the important human resource processes in which sustainable procurement should be embedded?
- What kind of new policies will you need? What should be included in them? What kind of follow-up will you need for them?
- What changes to your accounting system would help?
- Which corporate templates should be changed?
- What are the legal considerations?
- How should you structure your procurement processes to maximize the success of a sustainable procurement program? What is the full range of available tools and techniques here?
- What is a particularly good place to start when trying to figure out where to begin your sustainable procurement activities?
- How can you identify the key sustainability challenges and risks to your organization?
- How can you prioritize which products or services you should select as good candidates for procuring on a sustainable basis?
- How does a spend analysis fit into all this?
- How can you decide which environmental and social objectives are the most appropriate to use for writing your product specifications and bid evaluation criteria?
- What is the Hierarchy of Environmental Impact and how should you use it?
- What is an eco-label? What are some of the most prominent global eco-labels that you should know about?
- Who keeps track of international eco-labels?
- Why are product certifications so useful to the purchasing professional?
- What are the limitations of product certification and labelling?
- Why are standards a valuable tool for helping to achieve success for a sustainable procurement program? How should you set a standard?
- What are the internationally accepted standards relating to sustainable procurement?
- What is the best way to use a pre-purchase checklist?
- Where should you include sustainability criteria in your purchasing documents?
- How should you determine what best value for money means for you when you procure on a sustainable basis?
- What is life cycle cost?
- How do you calculate life cycle cost?
- What are the assumptions that you need to make for the calculations?
- When should you use life cycle costing?
- What the important considerations involved?
- What is the step by step procedure for carrying out a life cycle cost calculation?
- What are the internationally recognized life cycle cost standards?
- What are some ways that you can minimize waste in your procurement activities and operations?
- What is an environmental management system?
- What is the purpose of implementing an environmental management system?
- What are the important internationally recognized environmental management systems that you should know about?
- What are the barriers to the implementation of all types of environmental management systems?
- What are the important international social standards and agreements that you should know about?
- Why should you practice ethical sourcing?
- Who benefits from ethical sourcing?
- What are the key elements of an ethical sourcing program?
- What are the core tools for ethical sourcing?
- Is there software available to help with ethical sourcing?
- What is the best role for third party auditors?
- What are the important internationally recognised social responsibility labels?
- What is diversity purchasing?
- What is social purchasing?
- What is the full range of types of sustainability initiatives that can help to support your sustainable procurement activities?
- Why should you perform a sustainability risk assessment for your procurements?
- How do you carry out a sustainability risk assessment?
- What are the interpretation challenges in a sustainability risk assessment?
- What is environmental accounting?
- What is a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report?
- Why should you write a CSR report?
- What kinds of organizations issue CSR reports?
- Why is a CSR Report a useful tool for sustainable procurement?
- How accurate and reliable is the information in CSR reports?
- What makes for an effective CSR report?
- What are some examples of good sustainability indicators to use in sustainable procurement?
- How should you choose Key Performance Indicators?
- What is the full range of available tools and techniques for working with suppliers to support your sustainable procurement program?
- How should you pre-qualify suppliers?
- How should you use assessments of the sustainability of suppliers?
- How should you build a local green and ethical product availability database?
- Why should you hold a Meet the Buyers’ event and what can you do to increase the chances that it will be successful?
- How can you encourage local participation and content without getting into legal trouble?
- What is an alternative model to compensating suppliers by volume sold that can help your sustainable procurement program?
- Why should you measure the success of your procurement?
- What is worth measuring?
- How should you measure it?
- How should you choose Key Performance Indicators?
- Why should you consider using software tools for sustainable procurement and sustainable supply chain management
- What are the main categories of software used for sustainable procurement and sustainable supply chain management?
- What are the main benefits and challenges to using these software tools?
- What is a sustainable supply chain?
- Why introduce sustainability into the supply chain?
- What are the benefits of a sustainable supply chain?
- Why should sustainability be pushed through the supply chain?
- What are the major tools for analyzing the sustainability of the supply chain?
- How can supply chain mapping help you?
- How do you assess risk in the sustainable supply chain?
- What are indicators that can be used to measure the performance of the sustainable supply chain?
- What are the steps to implementing a sustainable supply chain?
- What are some ideas for introducing sustainability into supply chain logistics?
- What are the sustainability considerations in reverse logistics?
- What is the easiest way to know what kinds of products and services can be procured on a sustainable basis?
- What kinds of products make good candidates for you to start your sustainable procurement program with?
- What are some examples of commonly available products that have clear financial, environmental or social benefits to the purchaser versus their ‘conventional’ equivalents?
- What is greenwashing?
- How can you avoid greenwashing in your own operations?
- How can you avoid being fooled by the greenwashing of others?
- What is ethics-washing?
- What are the most common challenges that you are likely to encounter in your sustainable procurement program?
- What are some suggested success strategies for dealing with them?
- What is the best method of setting targets for a sustainable procurement?
- At what level should the quick win category targets be set?
- What are the main tools for selecting which categories of products to move into after the quick win categories?
- How should you advance your targets as your sustainable procurement program grows?
- How should you establish activity targets and outcome targets and what is the best balance between them?
- What are the factors that are critical to the success of a sustainable procurement program?
- What does a high performance sustainable procurement program look like?
- What is the profile of a high performance buyer in the field of sustainable procurement?
- What does a clear step by step plan for getting a sustainable procurement program going in your organization look like?
- What is a step by plan for the Planning Phase? The Implementation Phase?
- How should you go beyond the Implementation Phase into continuous improvement?
Sustainable Procurement Essentials - Online Training Course
This is a professionally narrated slide-based e-learning course consisting of over 600 slides. It is a condensed version of the Sustainable Procurement for Professionals course for those who are more interested in a higher-level overview rather than all of the details. It covers most of the topics in the Sustainable Procurement for Professionals course, but not all.
It is expected that, as a result of taking this course, you will have an improved knowledge and understanding of:
- How to justify, plan and implement a green procurement or sustainable procurement program within your organization.
- How to start small to achieve quick wins that will demonstrate clear and quantifiable financial and environmental and social benefits to your organization.
- How to grow your program confidently over time, using the tools and techniques presented.
- How to structure your own organization and purchasing documents to maximize your chances of success, what challenges to expect, and how best to deal with them.
- How to manage your own suppliers from a sustainability point of view and how to work with them in moving the supply chain to a green and ethical basis.
- What software tools are available to improve your productivity.
- How to evaluate and mitigate risk in the supply chain.
- How to create a sustainable procurement program that will be respected by senior management, customers, suppliers and stakeholders alike.
Assess the quality of the course for yourself – please feel free to download a free sample chapter of the course from the link below.
Sample Chapter
Interested in downloading a free sample chapter from the course in PDF format? Please click the button below to download the Introduction chapter (no sign-up is required).
Buy Now
Buy Now Price: 290.00 Canadian Dollars (plus applicable taxes)
Please click the button below to purchase access to this course for 180 days.
What topics does the Sustainable Procurement for Professionals course cover specifically?
- What is green procurement?
- What motivates organizations to start practicing green procurement?
- What is sustainable procurement?
- What are the fundamental guiding principles of sustainable procurement that you should always follow?
- Why is sustainable procurement not meant to be an ‘add-on’ or an alternative to traditional procurement practices?
- What are the financial, environmental and social reasons to practice sustainable procurement that will beef up your business case?
- What are the risk management reasons and how will these support corporate risk management?
- How should you structure your own organization to maximize the success of a sustainable procurement program? What is the full range of available tools and techniques here
- What are the important human resource processes in which sustainable procurement should be embedded?
- What kind of new policies will you need? What should be included in them? What kind of follow-up will you need for them?
- What changes to your accounting system would help?
- Which corporate templates should be changed?
- What are the legal considerations?
- How should you structure your procurement processes to maximize the success of a sustainable procurement program? What is the full range of available tools and techniques here?
- What is a particularly good place to start when trying to figure out where to begin your sustainable procurement activities?
- How can you identify the key sustainability challenges and risks to your organization?
- How can you prioritize which products or services you should select as good candidates for procuring on a sustainable basis?
- How does a spend analysis fit into all this?
- How can you decide which environmental and social objectives are the most appropriate to use for writing your product specifications and bid evaluation criteria?
- What is the Hierarchy of Environmental Impact and how should you use it?
- What is an eco-label? What are some of the most prominent global eco-labels that you should know about?
- Who keeps track of international eco-labels?
- Why are product certifications so useful to the purchasing professional?
- What are the limitations of product certification and labelling?
- Why are standards a valuable tool for helping to achieve success for a sustainable procurement program? How should you set a standard?
- What are the internationally accepted standards relating to sustainable procurement?
- What is the best way to use a pre-purchase checklist?
- Where should you include sustainability criteria in your purchasing documents?
- How should you determine what best value for money means for you when you procure on a sustainable basis?
- What is life cycle cost?
- How do you calculate life cycle cost?
- What are the assumptions that you need to make for the calculations?
- When should you use life cycle costing?
- What the important considerations involved?
- What is the step by step procedure for carrying out a life cycle cost calculation?
- What are the internationally recognized life cycle cost standards?
- What are some ways that you can minimize waste in your procurement activities and operations?
- What is an environmental management system?
- What is the purpose of implementing an environmental management system?
- What are the important internationally recognized environmental management systems that you should know about?
- What are the barriers to the implementation of all types of environmental management systems?
- What are the important international social standards and agreements that you should know about?
- Why should you practice ethical sourcing?
- Who benefits from ethical sourcing?
- What are the key elements of an ethical sourcing program?
- What are the core tools for ethical sourcing?
- Is there software available to help with ethical sourcing?
- What is the best role for third party auditors?
- What are the important internationally recognised social responsibility labels?
- What is diversity purchasing?
- What is social purchasing?
- What is the full range of types of sustainability initiatives that can help to support your sustainable procurement activities?
- Why should you perform a sustainability risk assessment for your procurements?
- How do you carry out a sustainability risk assessment?
- What are the interpretation challenges in a sustainability risk assessment?
- What is environmental accounting?
- What is a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report?
- Why should you write a CSR report?
- What kinds of organizations issue CSR reports?
- Why is a CSR Report a useful tool for sustainable procurement?
- How accurate and reliable is the information in CSR reports?
- What makes for an effective CSR report?
- What are some examples of good sustainability indicators to use in sustainable procurement?
- How should you choose Key Performance Indicators?
- What is the full range of available tools and techniques for working with suppliers to support your sustainable procurement program?
- How should you pre-qualify suppliers?
- How should you use assessments of the sustainability of suppliers?
- How should you build a local green and ethical product availability database?
- Why should you hold a Meet the Buyers’ event and what can you do to increase the chances that it will be successful?
- How can you encourage local participation and content without getting into legal trouble?
- What is an alternative model to compensating suppliers by volume sold that can help your sustainable procurement program?
- Why should you measure the success of your procurement?
- What is worth measuring?
- How should you measure it?
- How should you choose Key Performance Indicators?
- Why should you consider using software tools for sustainable procurement and sustainable supply chain management
- What are the main categories of software used for sustainable procurement and sustainable supply chain management?
- What are the main benefits and challenges to using these software tools?
- What is a sustainable supply chain?
- Why introduce sustainability into the supply chain?
- What are the benefits of a sustainable supply chain?
- Why should sustainability be pushed through the supply chain?
- What are the major tools for analyzing the sustainability of the supply chain?
- How can supply chain mapping help you?
- How do you assess risk in the sustainable supply chain?
- What are indicators that can be used to measure the performance of the sustainable supply chain?
- What are the steps to implementing a sustainable supply chain?
- What are some ideas for introducing sustainability into supply chain logistics?
- What are the sustainability considerations in reverse logistics?
- What is the easiest way to know what kinds of products and services can be procured on a sustainable basis?
- What kinds of products make good candidates for you to start your sustainable procurement program with?
- What are some examples of commonly available products that have clear financial, environmental or social benefits to the purchaser versus their ‘conventional’ equivalents?
- What is greenwashing?
- How can you avoid greenwashing in your own operations?
- How can you avoid being fooled by the greenwashing of others?
- What is ethics-washing?
- What are the most common challenges that you are likely to encounter in your sustainable procurement program?
- What are some suggested success strategies for dealing with them?
- What is the best method of setting targets for a sustainable procurement?
- At what level should the quick win category targets be set?
- What are the main tools for selecting which categories of products to move into after the quick win categories?
- How should you advance your targets as your sustainable procurement program grows?
- How should you establish activity targets and outcome targets and what is the best balance between them?
- What are the factors that are critical to the success of a sustainable procurement program?
- What does a high performance sustainable procurement program look like?
- What is the profile of a high performance buyer in the field of sustainable procurement?
- What does a clear step by step plan for getting a sustainable procurement program going in your organization look like?
- What is a step by plan for the Planning Phase? The Implementation Phase?
- How should you go beyond the Implementation Phase into continuous improvement?