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Procurement with Purpose describes a growing and powerful movement - how organisations can use the money they spend with suppliers to help address wider environmental, social and economic issues. That is not just about emissions and climate change, but includes how to address issues such as biodiversity and habitat loss, plastics and waste, modern slavery, inequality and discrimination, and more. That organisational 'buying power' is now being used to drive change across the business and political world. With case studies from leading organisations, insightful analysis of 'business purpose' concepts and practical guidance on implementing these ideas through the procurement and contracting cycle, Procurement with Purpose is a fascinating and valuable resource for anyone interested in how organisations can help protect and nurture this planet and its people.

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Date de parution	01 novembre 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781839523724
Langue	English

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First published 2021 Copyright © Peter Smith 2021
The right of Peter Smith to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the written permission of the copyright holder.
Published under licence by Brown Dog Books and The Self-Publishing Partnership Ltd, 10b Greenway Farm, Bath Rd, Wick, nr. Bath BS30 5RL
www.selfpublishingpartnership.co.uk

ISBN printed book: 978-1-83952-371-7 ISBN e-book: 978-1-83952-372-4
Cover design by Kevin Rylands Internal design by Andrew Easton
Printed and bound in the UK
This book is printed on FSC certified paper
CONTENTS
TO START
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Introduction
A Personal Perspective from Mark Perera
SECTION 1 – Purposeful Business
Chapter 1 The Origins of Sustainability and Business Purpose
Chapter 2 The Rise of Sustainability and Purpose
Chapter 3 Understanding the Stakeholders
SECTION 2 – Procurement with Purpose
Chapter 4 Procurement with Purpose Today
Chapter 5 Prioritisation and Focus: Developing a Strategy for PwP
Chapter 6 Moving into Implementation
Chapter 7 Driving Action Through Supplier Selection
Chapter 8 Driving Action Through the Contract
Chapter 9 Collaboration with Suppliers
Chapter 10 A Refreshing and Inspiring Conversation with Heineken
Chapter 11 Greenwashing and Other Risks
Chapter 12 Amplifying Procurement with Purpose
Chapter 13 Leadership and People
Chapter 14 COVID & Procurement with Purpose
Section 4 – The Issues and Options
Chapter 15 Social Value
Chapter 16 Climate Change
Chapter 17 Sustainable Consumption of Natural Resources
Chapter 18 Plastics, Pollution and Obsolescence
Chapter 19 Animals and Food
Chapter 20 Sustainable Living with Unilever
Chapter 21 Modern Slavery and Human Rights
Chapter 22 Supporting Purposeful Causes and Associated Suppliers
Chapter 23 Supporting Diversity in the Supply Base
Chapter 24 Standing Tall with Vodafone’s Three Pillars
SECTION 4 – A Directory of Procurement with Purpose Topics
Introducing the Directory
SOCIAL Modern Slavery and Human Rights
Rehabilitation of Offenders
Workplace Diversity and Inclusion
Diversity in the Supply Base
Supporting Charities and Social Enterprises
Supporting Local Business and Communities)
Health and Safety
Apprenticeships
Wage Discrimination
GDPR
ENVIRONMENTAL
Carbon Emissions
Deforestation and Habitat Loss
Plastics
Species Loss
Pollution
Waste
Recycling and Circularity
Food Provenance and Animal Welfare
Water Conservation and Management
Local Environmental Issues
ECONOMIC Treatment of Suppliers
Fraud, Corruption and Sanctions
Fair Wages
Paying Taxes
Promoting Supplier Innovation
Promoting Employment
A FINAL WORD
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this book in some way. Starting at the beginning, Samia Calvet at software firm SAP Ariba commissioned me to write a “thought leadership” paper on the topic back in 2018. While I was already very interested in the whole area, that really got me thinking about producing a book, so thanks to her for that inspiration.
Mark Perera and I then discovered our common interest in the topic, and we interviewed many interesting people, initially for our website. Many of those folks now appear in this book, so our sincere thanks to them for giving their time and wisdom to the cause of Procurement with Purpose.
Thanks also to those who read the proof and provided testimonials and reviews for us to use, and also to Sarah Clarke, Nancy Clinton, my wife Jane and daughter Ginny, who all provided input to the book in terms of content, design or both.
Finally, thanks to Douglas, Frances and the team at the Self-Publishing Partnership. We decided to self-publish so we could control the pricing of the book and make sure as much of the revenue as possible goes to good causes. But I also knew from past experience that the team at SPP would make the experience pleasant and straightforward, as it proved.
About the Authors
Peter Smith
Peter was born in Sunderland and after graduating from St. John’s College, Cambridge, he started his procurement career at Mars Confectionery. He was then Procurement Director for Dun & Bradstreet Europe, the Department of Social Security, and the NatWest Group. He is a Fellow and was 2003 President of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, acted as a Senior Adviser to the UK National Audit Office and has served as a non-executive director of two large public sector organisations and a growing private firm.
He founded his consulting firm, Procurement Excellence Ltd. in 2004 and from 2010-18 was Managing Editor of the Spend Matters Europe website, read by thousands of procurement professionals every day. His first co-authored book, (with Fiona Czerniawska), “ Buying Professional Services ” was published by The Economist Books in 2010. A second book, “ A Procurement Compendium ” was published in 2019, and in October 2020, Penguin Business published his latest book, “ Bad Buying – How Organisations Waste Billions Through Failures, Frauds and F*ck-ups ”!
Mark Perera
Mark graduated from Southampton University with a degree in Biology, and after a few years of corporate life moved into the entrepreneurial space, co-founding Procurement Leaders in 2004. That organisation grew into the leading global membership, events, and intelligence network for procurement across major businesses. In 2014, Mark stepped back from Procurement Leaders and founded Vizibl, a leading cloud technology platform that enables organisations to drive growth through supplier collaboration and innovation. He also has an interest in a number of other start-ups and growing businesses, and is a recognised thought leader in the procurement and technology worlds. Mark lives in south-west London with his wife and two teenage daughters.
For more information on procurement with purpose topics, and regular new articles, please see the website at: https://www.procurementwithpurpose.com/
Introduction
Procurement with purpose as an expression is relatively new. Procurement professionals have talked about the purpose of procurement for many years, but it is only relatively recently that we have used the newer phrase to indicate the aspect of responsible and purposeful business that relates to how organisations spend money with suppliers.
Software firm SAP Ariba started including the expression in promotional material in 2017, and I wrote a briefing paper for the firm in 2018 titled “Procurement with a Purpose – Making a Positive Impact on Organisations, Human Rights and Communities”.
In simple terms, procurement with purpose aims to use corporate and public sector spend with suppliers to drive wider benefits, environmental, social and economic, rather than simply support the spending organisations’ short-term, internal goals. And in the last few years, it has assumed greater importance and priority across many organisations and become of real interest to millions of people around the world.
Mark Perera and I launched the Procurement with Purpose website in late 2019, and I started writing this book in the 2019/20 New Year holiday period. We were looking forward to skiing holidays, music festivals, major corporate events and conferences through that year. The global economy looked in pretty good shape, although Brexit and the 2020 Presidential election in the USA loomed ahead of us. By late March around half the book was in first draft form. And then, everything changed.
The coronavirus pandemic swept the globe, with countries including the US, UK and much of Europe severely affected. Hundreds of thousands died, businesses were put into suspended animation or closed forever. People lost their jobs, whilst those in the medical sector and other critical service areas ended up working flat out for months to try and save lives, sometimes sacrificing their own. One friend who was at the front line of PPE supply (personal protective equipment) into the UK National Health Service talked of working 100-hour weeks.
I stopped work on the book for a couple of months. It was hard to think logically about deforestation or diversity in the supply chain when you’re not sure how to get food to a 92-year-old mother “shielding” at the other end of the country, or whether flights to Singapore would ever resume (my daughter and son-in-law flew out on a two-year assignment to the city just two weeks before the virus really hit).
But even in the worst of the first lockdowns, there were some unexpected benefits of the industrial shutdown – not that anyone wanted that to continue for long. But dolphins swam in the usually polluted canals of Venice, and wild goats roamed the streets of Llandudno in Wales. 1 The air became magically cleaner, and that sparked renewed discussion around how to address climate change, reduce emissions and further address pollution. 2
As you can see, the book was completed, but with further interviews over Zoom taking the place of discussions in pleasant pubs, more’s the pity! Writing this now in the summer of 2021, the picture is still mixed. In some places, the third (or fourth) wave is still killing thousands daily. But vaccines are being delivered to millions of people every day, and in some countries, we can see that life might return to something closer to normal by the end of 2021. However, it will be a “new normal” everywhere, and it is not clear what COVID will do for the whole sustainable business and procurement with purpose movements. It could go either way; but we will come back to those implications at greater length in Chapter 14 . The “moving target” challenge has