SUSTAINABILITY three suppliers upstream, often before the company itself knows there’ s a problem.

For procurement teams, this is a practical problem as much as a strategic one. Assessing the environmental practices, labour standards and governance of hundreds of suppliers across dozens of countries is hard enough. Doing it without drowning in spreadsheets, one-off questionnaires and site audits that can’ t keep pace with the scale of the task is even harder.

United Nations Global Leadership ESG Programme

of a company’ s total environmental footprint occurs in its supply chain rather than direct operations