Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Learning objectives / outcomes:

Through this session participants will:

• Gain an understanding of how the EU Due Diligence legislation relates to supply chain management and procurement
• Establish the relationship between EU Due Diligence legislation and socio-ecological challenges facing organisations
• Advance their knowledge of relevant regulatory and voluntary approaches towards sustainability in supply chains and procurement
• Explore how they can proactively embed Due Diligence in the ways of working of their organisations through examples and games
• Surface the key issues and debates related to sustainable supply chain management and procurement
• Develop a better sense of their own assumptions and position towards relation between business and sustainability

Contents:

• Due diligence in a sustainability context: the urgency of addressing ecological and social challenges and
• Due diligence implications: what it has to do with procurement and supply chains
• Defining sustainable supply chain management and sustainable procurement
• Sustainable SCM and procurement: how to become pro-active
• The future of sustainable SCM and procurement: global trends