The BuySmart Network offers organizations integrated research, information, training, and networking services to assist in their sustainability purchasing efforts. BuySmart's services include the following:

BuySmart Network News and Events

Stay tuned in with current network and membership news, events, and resources. Go to our subscribe page and add your contact information to one or both of our mailing lists.

Business Case Guide

This generic guide provides information on the business case of and benefits for sustainability purchasing. Use it to help promote and start sustainability purchasing in your organization.

Research and Tools

Benefit from the Network’s established research, which provides information, tools, and methods to help plan, measure, report on, and evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of your sustainability purchasing policies and programs.

Best Practice

Learn about what others are doing through the Network’s Best Practice Case Study series currently available through our training workshops as well as on our website.

Training Workshops

Whether you are just starting out, or are already on the path to sustainability purchasing, SPN training workshops help you to sharpen your sustainability purchasing management knowledge and skills.

Learning Circles

Join other practitioners to learn about best practices in sustainability purchasing, compare notes on success stories, lessons learned, current challenges, and opportunities, and receive support and assistance with current projects.

Online Forum

Meet members of the sustainability purchasing community in our online forum to dialogue and gain information on topics of interest, such as product and service choices and challenges, sustainability purchasing procedures, and supplier engagement.

Business-to-Business Projects

*Coming soon* Business-to-business projects will enable purchaser-to-purchaser and purchaser-to-supplier collaboration on specific projects that advance sustainability innovation and product quality in the supply chain.

Technical Advisory Services

Talk to us about our comprehensive technical advisory services that can help you embed sustainability purchasing within your organization and achieve your operational sustainability goals. These include policy, strategy, and business case development, tendering tools, strategic supply chain management, and customized training and educational services. Leverage our years of experience implementing programs, delivering learning services and creating sustainability purchasing solutions for government, business, and non-profit organizations.

Business Case Development

A solid business case for sustainability, outlining the positive impacts of sustainability purchasing and related opportunities, will prove an invaluable tool to build the case for sustainability purchasing in your organization. We offer business case development services tailored to government, business, and not-for-profit sectors.

Policy and Program Development

We are an experienced leader in sustainability purchasing policy and program development in the government, financial, corporate, and not-for-profit sectors. Whether it is benchmark research, strategy development, technical assistance, stakeholder engagement, or custom system roll-out for the launch of a sustainability purchasing policy or program, our team can accelerate and bring value to an internally-driven process.

Supply Chain Management and Innovation

Learn how you can bring about social and environmental improvement by working with the supply chain “value-network.” We offer strategic and technical services that enable you to foster environmental, ethical, and social compliance and innovation in your supply chain.

Education Solutions

The value of training is equal if not greater to the value of program development. By creating superior sustainability purchasing knowledge and training programs, we can help empower your staff with the tools they need to implement efficient sustainability purchasing solutions.

Tendering Toolkit

We can customize an integrated tendering toolkit for your organization to provide practical tools that help navigate the challenges of starting or enhancing your sustainability purchasing program. This may include “request for proposal” templates, evaluation score cards, total cost of ownership tools, procedural guidelines, supply chain engagement strategies, case studies, and monitoring and evaluation frameworks.

Buying Clubs and Product Fairs

BuySmart can help you establish a group purchasing club for sustainable purchasing and organize product fairs that bring sustainability suppliers and purchasers together.

Stakeholder Engagement

Contact BuySmart if you are interested in our advice or services on stakeholder engagement for the development of your policies and programs.

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