STRATEGIC SOURCING
THE PROCUREMENT ALLIANCE ACCELERATING SUSTAINABLE HOSPITALITY
Some of the world ’ s biggest hospitality companies , have joined forces with procurement solutions experts to form an alliance for the good of responsible sourcing
WRITTEN BY : NEIL PERRY
The Hospitality Alliance for Responsible Procurement ( HARP ) is an EcoVadispowered sector initiative by a group of international hospitality companies and their key Global Procurement Organisations : Accor , Hilton , IHG Hotels & Resorts , Marriott International , Radisson Hotel Group , Avendra and Entegra .
“ By joining forces , enabling more strategic focus and sharing best practices , HARP members and their suppliers can focus on positive outcomes that help pave the way towards their sustainability targets ,” explains Richard Eyram , Chief Customer Officer at EcoVadis .
“ By joining HARP , leading hospitality organisations across the world seek to do exactly that : to maximise their collective effort to accelerate sustainable practices by fostering close collaboration with their trading partners to build transparency and scale positive impact across their value chains ,” he adds .
The central focus of the alliance is to accelerate positive impacts across the industry by improving supplier sustainability performance . This is done with Eco-Vadis acting as the alliance co-ordinator with a governance structure overseen by each member ’ s Chief Procurement Officer .
Sustainable procurement working groups They also develop specific working groups for particular sustainable procurement issues to help accelerate action as a collective force . HARP was created as a new way of measuring and improving supply chain sustainability performance , using EcoVadis ’ sustainability rating data pools to create shared evaluation methodologies , empowering the companies involved to interact with their key suppliers , and facilitating the exchange of expertise to help with a unified drive towards best practices .
66 January 2024