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Leveraging Purchasing Power for Business & Community Impact
November 20, 2014 | Vancouver Join us in Vancouver on November 20 for a new workshop to learn how sustainable, best value purchasing can enhance your business and help generate social, environmental and financial benefits. Here's an opportunity to build a strong supply chain and boost customer and employee loyalty. Take away practical tools, scorecards and product guidelines to customize your own purchasing policies and practices. Register soon — space is limited! The workshop is hosted by the Strathcona Business Improvement Association, BuySmart Network, Ecotrust Canada, Light House Sustainable Building Centre and One Earth, with support from the Vancouver Foundation and Discovery Parks. |
Advisory Services Along with its open learning events, the BuySmart Network offers custom training and advisory services to help you launch your own sustainable purchasing program.
Talk to us about how to introduce sustainable purchasing to your organization in a manner consistent with your values and operational goals. Our technical advisory services include business case development; policy and program development; supply chain management and innovation; tendering tools and stakeholder engagement. Business Case DevelopmentA business case for sustainability identifies the positive impacts of sustainable purchasing and related opportunities for your organization. It is a valuable tool for planning and building internal support. BuySmart can assist with the development of a business case tailored to government, business and not-for-profit sectors. Policy and Program DevelopmentBuySmart can assist in creating sustainable purchasing policies and programs for organizations in all sectors, whatever their stage of progress: from benchmark research, to strategy development, to final roll-out. Supply Chain Management and InnovationWe offer strategic and technical assistance to help organizations in working more productively with their suppliers – to encourage positive social and environmental performance as well as innovation across the entire supply chain. Tendering ToolkitBuySmart can help your organization prepare a tendering toolkit that encompasses sustainable purchasing criteria. Tools may include request for proposal templates, evaluation score cards, total cost of ownership tools, procedural guidelines, supply chain engagement strategies, case studies or monitoring and evaluation frameworks. Stakeholder EngagementNeed to reach out? BuySmart can assist you with engaging internal and external stakeholders who are critical to the success of your sustainability policies and programs. |
