For governments and corporations alike to meet their CO2 reduction targets, procurement teams must work with suppliers to bring down emissions upstream in the value chain.
Samuel Wrest
Principal Analyst
Joined 2017
Samuel has worked as both a journalist and an analyst. He is principal analyst at Procurement Leaders, where he oversees research and advisory on sustainability and innovation. Prior to joining Procurement Leaders, Samuel managed business intelligence projects for a foreign investment firm in China.
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Setting targets and tracking progress towards better supply chain diversity
Tracking progress on supplier diversity and inclusion is a challenge for many businesses. What metrics should teams be using, and how can they ensure they are effecting positive change?
Finding, assessing and attracting supplier innovation
This report provides leaders with insights into building or strengthening their SEI programmes to help fuel positive growth for years to come. Please note, this report is available to enhanced members only
Building a procurement sustainability programme
To reduce their environmental and social footprint, organisations must develop a formal procurement approach to sustainability and work closely with suppliers to deliver improvements
Moving from compliance to partnerships in procurement sustainability
Partnering with suppliers to improve sustainability can drastically improve environmental and social conditions in the supply chain. Examples from the Procurement Leaders’ network show that...
Virtual roundtable write-up: Procurement team structures for successful supplier enabled innovation
Creating an operating structure that clearly delivers innovation to the business is difficult for procurement. While over half of procurement teams now look to access the innovation capability of...
Unilever’s approach to creating a carbon neutral supply chain
The British-Dutch consumer company is working towards net zero emissions by 2039, requiring a significant reduction of CO2 levels in its supply chain
Procurement 101: Building a procurement sustainability programme
This video series explores how procurement teams can build effective sustainability programmes, from setting up teams to succeed to working with suppliers to make improvements
SEIC Accelerator takeaways: defining innovation, re-structuring procurement, and working with start-ups
While supplier innovation programmes were widely de-prioritized in the aftermath of Covid-19, Procurement Leaders’ upcoming CPO Planning Guide shows SEI is more of a CPO priority now than it was...
Clarity on procurement sustainability roles and responsibilities
For procurement to make progress on improving supply chain sustainability, clear roles and structures should be established.
Developing better diversity and inclusion in the supply chain
Making progress with supplier diversity requires structural change in the function, from how it identifies and engages with new suppliers, to the metrics it uses to report how improvements are being made.
The community’s approach to: innovation operating structures
Creating an operating structure that clearly delivers innovation to the business is difficult for procurement. While over half of procurement teams now look to access the innovation capability of...
Enabling better SEI with platforms and digitalisation
As businesses look to access the intellectual capital of their suppliers and other third parties, online platforms have become a popular means of gaining visibility of this capability. Less...
On-demand webinar: Adopting a formal approach to supplier incentivisation
Introducing appropriate incentives is vital to attaining ‘partner of choice’ status with key suppliers, paving the way for buying organisations to access innovations from third parties. This...
Steps for implementing a more sustainable form of TCO
As sustainability in the supply chain grows in importance for procurement, how businesses define their total cost of ownership (TCO) in sourcing is beginning to change.
Ensuring innovation and sustainability work together
Supplier innovation is seen as essential for business recovery and growth – but companies shouldn’t lose sight of its importance to improving environmental and social sustainability
Creating an operating structure for value beyond savings
Procurement Leaders hosted a discover and discuss session on how to create an operating structure to support value beyond savings
Evaluating Innovation
Procurement Leaders hosted a Virtual Roundtable on how organisations assess innovation and the structures they have in place do to so.
Procurement 101: Addressing supply chain sustainability during a crisis
This session looks at the ways in which procurement sustainability programmes are affected during a time of crisis and how functions can best respond
Addressing supply chain sustainability during a crisis
While the coronavirus pandemic is partially disrupting procurement’s sustainability work, the function’s ambitions and targets remain intact