ESG
Mark Perera is CEO and Co-Founder of Vizibl , the company behind the world ’ s leading supplier collaboration and innovation platform . As CEO , a large part of Perera ’ s role involves speaking directly to Vizibl ’ s customers and prospects to learn more about their challenges , gaining an understanding of how Vizibl can work alongside them to iterate on and expand existing offerings to meet those needs .
Procurement ’ s sustainability progress Perera feels that “ there has been an overall lack of real progress in sustainability ”, though he emphasises that “ this isn ’ t something that
can be landed at the door of procurement alone ”, with “ some mitigating factors at play that have also prevented things from moving forward at the pace that they need to ”.
He says procurement has had more “ immediate ” issues to deal with in the supply chain , mainly caused by the hangover from COVID-19 , the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine , and – for people in the UK – Brexitrelated supply problems . Therefore , ways to reduce scope 3 emissions in the value chain , for example , have once again had to take a back seat .
Alongside those issues , however , he thinks there ’ s also a concern over a lack of real movement on actually tackling sustainability-related issues . At Vizibl , there ’ s a saying that “ action beats inaction every
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