Evénements | Workshop | Reshaping Corporate Approaches to Sustainable Sourcing

Recent supply chain crises across industries and regions have prompted many companies to re-evaluate their own overall approach to supply chain sustainability, including management practices and tools, employee incentives, and allocation of resources.

This workshop will bring together senior managers responsible for the purchasing and or sustainable supply chain activities in their companies to learn from BSR, external experts and each other about new thinking on organizational structures and internal management practices related to sustainable supply chain management. The workshop will be open to a maximum of 20 people and is strictly by invitation only.

Some of the key topics for discussion will include:

• Cross-industry analysis of sustainable sourcing successes and challenges
• Leading thinking on buyer and social / environmental auditor roles, responsibilities, incentives, and career paths
• New tools to promote sustainable purchasing among buyers, including scorecards, management systems, tools for measuring supplier risk, and innovative training programs
• Shift of focus from audit to capacity building
• Allocation of financial resources within (sustainable) sourcing departments

The workshop will be facilitated by Tara Norton, Director, Advisory Services, BSR and Cecile Oger, Manager, Advisory Services, BSR

Agenda

Session 1: Setting the Scene: Stakeholder expectations and engagement, and the effects on internal sustainable sourcing practices

• Presentation by BSR of trends in stakeholder expectations in terms of supply chain management

• Panel discussion with representatives from organizations with views across the spectrum of sustainability issues. With Dan Rees, Executive Director of the ILO-IFC Better Work Programme; Jean-Philippe DesMartin, Senior Analyst, Head of ESG Research, Oddo Securities; and Sara Nordbrand, Sustainable Investment – Head of Corporate Engagement, Church of Sweden.

Session 2: Internal organisation and processes for moving beyond supply chain compliance towards capacity building:

• Discussion with Rufus Bullough, Wilbury Stratton

• Evolving trends in organizational structures around sustainability and supply chain

Session 3: Practical tools for buyers, including scorecards, management systems and innovative training programmes
"Case-study" presentations:

• Risk Mapping and Responsible Procurement Program – Anne Senez, Head of Methodology & Risk Management, Sanofi
• Integrating externalized and hidden costs into the real price of goods when making purchasing decisions – Alain Renard, Unit Leader Environmental Chemist, C&A
• How PPR uses the Environmental Profit & Loss Account to engage buyers – Helen Crowley, Conservation & Ecosystem Services Specialist, PPR
• Impacting buyer practices through tailored training and e-learning - Annemette N. Johansen, Responsible Sourcing Manager, Novo Nordisk
• Additional case studies will be presented by BSR
   

Intervenants

• Alain Renard, C&A
• Anne Senez, Sanofi
• Annemette N. Johansen, Novo Nordisk
• Dan Rees, ILO-IFC Better Work partnership
• Helen Crowley, PPR
• Jean-Philippe DesMartin, Oddo Securities
• Rufus Bullough, Wilbury Stratton
• Sara Nordbrand, Church of Sweden