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EcoVadis TD

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Sustainable Procurement Gains Momentum, as Strategy Shifts to Resilience and Impact

As procurement and sustainability teams alike are reeling from over a year of ‘stop & restart’ pandemic, the practice of Sustainable Procurement has endured and expanded as a key strategy for rebuilding better and more resilient supply chains. In this session, hear insights and practitioner perspectives on how leaders are doubling down on Sustainable procurement.

Join a Theme Discussion hosted by EcoVadis gathering competences and experiences in sustainability. Sustainability is and has for a long time been high on the agenda for most organizations. Procurement sit in the heart of that evolution. During this session you will meet with a peer group sharing the same interests as you!

How Sustainable Procurement Gains Momentum, as Strategy Shifts to Resilience and Impact

As procurement and sustainability teams alike are reeling from over a year of ‘stop & restart’ pandemic, the practice of Sustainable Procurement has endured and expanded as a key strategy for rebuilding better and more resilient supply chains. In this session, hear insights and practitioner perspectives on how leaders are doubling down on Sustainable procurement.

We will share and discuss;

  • What measures are procurement functions taking to visualize sustainability efforts?
  • How can procurement integrate sustainability KPIs/metrics/dashboards into operations?
  • In what ways are corporates collaborating with suppliers to ensure clauses are complied with?

Robert is the Enterprise Account Executive, Nordics and Baltics, at EcoVadis – a leading Business Sustainability Ratings company. EcoVadis operates the first and largest collaborative platform allowing companies to monitor and improve the ESG performance of their business and trading partners. EcoVadis combines AI, technology and expertise to deliver simple and reliable “Business Sustainability Scorecards”, covering 200 purchasing categories, 21 CSR indicators, and 160 countries  and companies of all sizes. Over 85,000 businesses collaborate with EcoVadis to drive resilience, sustainable growth and positive impact worldwide.

Icertis TD

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“If you haven’t fully digitised your CLM processes; how can you control supplier risk and performance?“

How do you work with your Contract Lifecycle Management? Is it a digitized structure? Automated insights?

During this Theme Discussion you can meet with Simon Patteson and discuss contract management development with him and a peer group. You an start choosing sessions straight after registration!

Basware_TD

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She knows what she is talking about. Welcome to join either of the two sessions hosted by Katy at Basware! Below what you will be discussing – sharing experiences and insights in the group. The mission statement conclude what we aim to give you after joining this session.

MISSION STATEMENT

After this session you will walk away with a broader knowledge into how others are managing requesting and ordering services. You will learn about market developments in this area and get concrete advice. How You can increase services spend visibility and control.

How are you developing efficiency and insight when Requesting and Ordering Services (ROS)?

Ordering and following up the purchase of services have for long been a challenge. Services such as consulting services, marketing related services, cleaning services, etc. are often requested by ”needers” (an employee that doesn’t necessarily belong to the “procurement” organization or acts as a professional buyer). Demanding user friendly yet structured ways to make requests and follow up on company policy compliance. Requiring supplier insight ensuring quality, performance and SLA (service level agreements) follow through. During this session you will learn from Katy with many years experiences within procurement. You will also learn from the peer group joining this session. 

To be discussed;

  • How do your needers request services today?
  • What are the biggest challenges you are facing when the needers request and order services?
  • How do you ensure CSR (including local buying), possible related company policies when requesting and ordering services?
  • Has the past crisis changed the way services are requested today?
  • How do you receive these services, including quality, performance, SLA? How do the suppliers report on services performed?
  • What are the biggest challenges in verifying that the services are being delivered according to the order?