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Training Course Summary:

What is it about
Make your supply chain a major benefit to your environmental performance, marketing and PR strategy and overall company profile.
Contrast different codes of conduct and the strategies required to maximise your business benefit.

What do I get out of it?
- Understand the role of supply chains in the interaction between business and the environment
- Identify environmental issues relevant to your organisation, its supply chain and products and services
- Case studies of how other organisations have benefited from greening their supply chain
- Examples of supplier audit forms, codes of conduct and other materials to help you Green Shift your supply chain
- How to implement changes and also help your suppliers

Who Should Attend:

Purchasing managers, buyers and procurement managers.

Training Course Overview/Content:

The accelerator principle - how your supply chain can optimise your organisation's impact on the environment
- Best and worst practice; supply chain successes and failures
- Effective green procurement strategies:
Sourcing better products
Working with your suppliers
Codes of conduct
- Auditing your suppliers
- Estimating the costs and benefits of Green shift
- Creating mutually beneficial relationships:
How your supply chain can be a major benefit to environmental performance, marketing and PR strategies
The risks of getting it wrong
- Practical advice on how to implement changes