Workshop - Integrating Sustainability into Purchasing
SCHEDULE: 8:00 a.m. Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Workshop
12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. Networking Lunch
LOCATION: SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings, Vancouver
Optimize Your Program - Get Better Results from Vendors
Learn to Integrate Sustainability Into Purchasing and Bid Documents
For organizations that recognize the opportunity to advance sustainability through purchasing, it is important to integrate sustainability into bid documents. This workshop teaches targets buyers, purchasing managers, sustainability advisors and others to teach them how to send clear sustainability performance signals to the market, assess proposals effectively, and to enhance relationships with suppliers.
This workshop will focus on helping purchasers and others:
• Learn how to embed sustainability into traditional tenders and evaluations
• Gain experience with tools to integrate sustainability into the RFP process, including:
o Sustainability performance questionnaire(s) for suppliers
o Methods to evaluate suppliers
o Sustainability clauses for contracts
• Using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure program impacts.
• Understand the application of these tools from an in-depth case study
Guest speaker: Vicki Wakefield, Manager of Logistics and Sustainability), University of British Columbia will share case studies of how to evaluate suppliers based on social and environmental factors. She will be joined by Jennifer Young, BC Account Manager for Acklands Grainger who will speak from the vendors perspective about responding to RFP’s with green or sustainability specifications.
Who Should Attend
NGO, public or private sector: purchasers, office managers, policy advisors, sustainability suppliers and sustainability professionals.
Registration
$245 Private Sector and Government Organizations.
$175 Not-for-profit, small business and PMAC members
$100 Student
Pre-registration is required. Please register at lshore@fraserbasin.bc.ca.
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