Courses

What does your organisation buy, from whom, and under what conditions was it produced? Customers, investors, lenders and legislators are asking procurement teams this question more and more often. This Level 2 course shows you how to build sustainability into procurement and how to apply due diligence to suppliers: the environmental, social and economic dimensions and the main international references (ISO 20400, the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the ILO fundamental conventions); verifiable and proportionate environmental and social criteria in specifications, evaluation and contracts; human rights risks by category and by geography, including child and forced labour and conflict minerals; and the steps of a risk-based due diligence process, with questionnaires, audits, corrective action plans, grievance mechanisms and reporting. With drag-and-drop activities, hotspots and a complete case study, based on international references. Specific legal obligations vary from country to country.

What you will learn

• By the end of the course, learners will be able to explain the concept of sustainable procurement and the main international references.
• By the end of the course, learners will be able to include verifiable and proportionate environmental and social criteria in specifications, bid evaluation and contracts.
• By the end of the course, learners will be able to identify risks of human rights abuses in purchasing categories and geographies.
• By the end of the course, learners will be able to apply a risk-based due diligence process to suppliers, from identifying risks to reporting.

Modules

1. Sustainable procurement: concepts and references66 min
2. Environmental and social criteria in procurement63 min
3. Human rights in the supply chain48 min
4. Supplier due diligence63 min

Who it is for

Procurement, ESG, compliance