Achieving more sustainable outcomes from what you spend and how you work
Many organizations have made ambitious sustainability commitments that can only be achieved by driving change within supply chains or broader value chains. This means striking change at a supplier and project level and fully embedding sustainability principles and practices into how procurement thinks and operates. This is new for many, but the good news is that you don’t need to go it alone or do it all at once to make an impact – our sustainable procurement services help you identify what’s right for you now and in the future.
“Embedding sustainable procurement practices has so many benefits including reducing environmental impacts, promoting social responsibility, and enhancing long-term Value Creation.”
Driving sustainability into your Strategies and decision-making
Hitting corporate sustainability goals depends upon translating those company goals into supply strategies and finding the right suppliers to achieve them. This means making structural changes to how procurement is done, such as writing new policies, adding further value definitions, and figuring out how to make commercial decisions that accurately assess value through this new lens.
- Creating a vision for how suppliers will contribute to business sustainability goals
- Enabling procurement through updating operation processes and educating the team
- Making impact. Delivering projects that have a tangible sustainability impact to demonstrate intent and success
Proxima’s approach to sustainable procurement
Led by expert sustainable procurement professionals, we have several approaches to support your sustainability journey. These range from specific projects or supplier engagement initiatives to defined service lines such as maturity assessments, transformation, or decarbonization. We will work with your team to plan how to make purposeful change happen without disrupting key relationships or initiatives and balancing commercial and sustainable objectives.
- Developing a Sustainable Procurement Strategy aligned to wider procurement and business strategy
- Collaborating with key stakeholders and business areas to identify and manage change requirements to embed sustainability
- Supporting senior managers responsible for governance and controls to ensure sustainability is also embedded within supplier and contract management mechanisms