Procurement With Purpose

Whether it be in the corporate or public sectors, the purchases of goods and services represent considerable sums. They also account for 70% to 80% of these organizations’ environmental footprint. As such, procurement represents a major lever for the evolution of practices. The authors of this book advocate for committed purchasing, which helps to propagate a responsible approach upstream of value chains. Nonetheless, such an evolution implies a profound cultural change for the Procurement function. How can the necessarily more complex arbitration between suppliers be carried out? How can we adopt a more partnership-based approach to them? So many concrete questions that this book endeavors to answer.