Apply sustainability and ethical sourcing criteria to environmentally certified suppliers.
Designing Strategies to Favour Environmentally Certified Suppliers
Turn environmentally certified suppliers from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.
Course Overview
Most procurement disputes about environmentally certified suppliers originate in a specification written too quickly. Savings claimed on the procurement and supply operations discipline at signature are frequently lost during execution. This programme builds this part of procurement and supply operations from first principles, without padding and without omitting what matters. The programme builds the judgement to know which parts of environmentally certified suppliers to standardise and which to leave flexible. Participants who influence the wider procurement and supply operations agenda without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. Exercises escalate in difficulty, ending with the ambiguous situations that make this aspect of procurement and supply operations hard in practice. Ambition around environmentally certified suppliers outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. Organisations that document the procurement and supply operations capability properly resolve disputes about it far more quickly. The programme closes with an action plan for this part of procurement and supply operations that each participant writes for their own organisation.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Build a register of the risks attaching to environmentally certified suppliers and keep it current.
Plan the disposal or return route for obsolete and damaged stock in environmentally certified suppliers.
Diagnose whether a problem in environmentally certified suppliers is one of design, resourcing or discipline.
Design contract terms for environmentally certified suppliers that make performance measurable and enforceable.
Present the case for investment in environmentally certified suppliers in terms that a finance function will accept.
Reduce the working capital tied up in environmentally certified suppliers without creating stock-outs.
Who Should Attend
Public sector tendering officers applying environmentally certified suppliers under procurement regulation.
Staff seconded into improvement work on environmentally certified suppliers.
Specialists advising senior management on environmentally certified suppliers.
Supplier relationship managers developing partners in environmentally certified suppliers.
Quality staff inspecting incoming material in environmentally certified suppliers.
Finance staff reviewing spend and working capital in environmentally certified suppliers.
Course Modules
Environmentally certified suppliers: customs, documentation and cross-border movement
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Escalation and decision rights in environmentally certified suppliers
- Apply ethical and environmental criteria to supplier selection in environmentally certified suppliers.
- Define measurable service levels in the contract covering environmentally certified suppliers.
- Set escalation thresholds for environmentally certified suppliers that work out of hours.
- Test the procedure for environmentally certified suppliers against a realistic scenario.
Session 2Laying out the warehouse around how environmentally certified suppliers actually moves
- Establish what evidence demonstrates environmentally certified suppliers is under control.
- Evaluate environmentally certified suppliers on total cost of ownership across the full life.
- Set out how exceptions to environmentally certified suppliers are requested and approved.
- Rank the weaknesses in environmentally certified suppliers by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
Environmentally certified suppliers: sourcing strategy and market approach
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Releasing working capital trapped in environmentally certified suppliers
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about environmentally certified suppliers.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of environmentally certified suppliers current.
- Set the consequence for failing service levels on environmentally certified suppliers, and apply it.
- Build the competence framework that supports environmentally certified suppliers.
Session 2Documentation and customs treatment for environmentally certified suppliers
- Negotiate payment terms on environmentally certified suppliers without pushing suppliers into distress.
- Identify single-source dependencies in environmentally certified suppliers and cost the alternatives.
- Check that environmentally certified suppliers still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Review whether inventory policy on environmentally certified suppliers still matches actual demand.
Environmentally certified suppliers: controls, segregation and fraud prevention
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The approval control on environmentally certified suppliers that prevents fraud
- Agree the escalation route when supply of environmentally certified suppliers is disrupted.
- Identify slow-moving and obsolete stock inside environmentally certified suppliers and decide its fate.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether environmentally certified suppliers is improving.
- Write the specification for environmentally certified suppliers so two suppliers would price it the same way.
Session 2Reviewing environmentally certified suppliers when nothing has gone wrong
- Benchmark the organisation's environmentally certified suppliers against comparable operations.
- Confirm traceability from supplier to point of use for environmentally certified suppliers.
- Review whether environmentally certified suppliers is aligned with the objectives of the supply function.
- Remove steps in environmentally certified suppliers that add effort without adding assurance.
Environmentally certified suppliers: specification, requirement and demand
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The decisions in environmentally certified suppliers that cannot be delegated
- Review the audit trail for the last three award decisions on environmentally certified suppliers.
- Segment spend on environmentally certified suppliers by value and supply risk before choosing an approach.
- Map the physical flow of environmentally certified suppliers through receiving, storage and dispatch.
- Set the stock count cycle for environmentally certified suppliers and act on discrepancies.
Session 2Making supplier performance on environmentally certified suppliers mean something
- Agree what will be standardised in environmentally certified suppliers and what will not.
- Arrange the handover of environmentally certified suppliers so capability survives staff changes.
- Verify segregation between requisition, approval and receipt in environmentally certified suppliers.
- Define the trigger that would require environmentally certified suppliers to be redesigned.
Choose the package that suits you
Silver Package
At least 3 people
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Complete your registration
We will contact you within one business day to confirm.