Sustainable Procurement and Supplier ESG Management Training
A one-day programme for procurement and supply chain teams who are being handed sustainability obligations that originate somewhere else in the business. Scope 3 reporting needs supplier emissions data. Customer and export requirements need evidence about labour and environmental practice down the chain. Bursa's supply chain indicators need a defensible position on local and responsible sourcing. All of it lands on procurement, usually without additional headcount.
The programme is built around doing this proportionately. Screening two thousand suppliers to the same depth is neither possible nor useful, so the work is in segmentation: deciding which suppliers carry real risk or real emissions, applying effort there, and having a light, honest process everywhere else. Participants build a segmentation model and a screening approach for their own supply base during the day.
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Programme Agenda
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Welcome and Programme Overview
Introduction to the session, objectives, and housekeeping.
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Why This Landed on Procurement
The forces converging on the supply base: Scope 3 emissions reporting, customer sustainability requirements cascading down tiers, export regimes pricing embedded carbon, forced labour import restrictions in major markets, emerging due diligence legislation in the European Union, and Bursa's supply chain disclosure indicators. What each one actually asks procurement to produce.
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
The Framework: ISO 20400 and Risk-Based Due Diligence
ISO 20400 as guidance on integrating sustainability into procurement policy, strategy, organisation and process. The risk-based due diligence model that sits behind most legislation: identify, prioritise, act, track, communicate and remediate. Why a risk-based approach is both more defensible and cheaper than a uniform one.
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Segmenting the Supply Base
Building a segmentation that reflects real exposure rather than spend alone: emissions intensity, sector and geography risk, labour intensity, criticality and substitutability, and contract value. Participants segment their own supplier list against a supplied model and identify the tier that warrants deep engagement.
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
The Supplier Code of Conduct and Contract Terms
Writing a supplier code that is specific enough to enforce, covering environmental, labour and human rights, health and safety, business ethics and data protection expectations. Contract clauses that give you audit rights, data provision obligations, notification duties and a remediation route, and the difference between a clause that terminates and one that improves. What to do about suppliers with more bargaining power than you.
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Screening, Data Collection and Scope 3
Designing a supplier questionnaire that people will complete honestly, and keeping it short enough that they do. Collecting emissions data: spend-based estimation versus supplier-specific factors, what to ask a supplier who has never calculated a footprint, and how to sequence the ask across tiers. Verifying claims proportionately, and using third-party ratings and certifications without outsourcing your judgement.
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Break
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Audits, Non-Conformance and Capability Building
When a desk review is enough and when a site audit is warranted. Running an audit that surfaces real issues rather than a prepared performance. Handling a serious finding: the difference between exiting a supplier and fixing the problem, and why exit often moves the harm rather than ending it. Building supplier capability, and the local sourcing and SME development angle that Bursa indicators reward.
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Programme Design Workshop
Participants draft a twelve-month supplier ESG programme for their own organisation: segmentation, what each tier receives, the data ask, the timeline and the resource required.
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Wrap-Up and Q&A
Key takeaways, next steps, and close.
Key Outcomes
- Explain the regulatory and commercial forces placing sustainability obligations on the supply base
- Apply a risk-based due diligence model rather than treating all suppliers identically
- Segment a supply base by emissions, risk, criticality and value, and set engagement depth by tier
- Draft supplier code of conduct expectations and contract clauses that are enforceable
- Design a supplier data collection approach that supports Scope 3 reporting
- Handle non-conformance through remediation and capability building rather than reflexive exit
Training Mode Physical / Online / Hybrid / e-learning
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Level Intermediate, suitable for procurement, supply chain, sustainability, quality, legal and operations teams
Duration 1 Day (8 Hours) | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Venue In-house at the client's premises, or delivered via the client's preferred platform (Microsoft Teams, Zoom, or equivalent)
Assessment 10 to 15 question knowledge assessment covering all modules
Certificate Certificate of Completion issued to all participants upon full attendance