This blog article is excerpted from SPLC’s Guidance for Leadership in Sustainable Purchasing v1.0. Ensuring that contracting opportunities are accessible to diverse suppliers is a key part of promoting the health and resilience of local and global economies. Collectively, these…

I regularly talk to purchasing and sustainability professionals who are struggling with what to do about a sustainable purchasing policy. Some don’t have one and are just getting started drafting one. Others have created one but are having a hard…

It might seem logical to assume that our Guidance for Leadership in Sustainable Purchasing v1.0 would be solely aimed at procurement departments and processes they manage.  In reality, the Guidance goes far beyond this, and that’s a key reason that it significantly departs…