How leading companies can and should support mid-sized firms to deliver the latest wave of change
Over the past three decades, sustainable procurement has slowly become an accepted part of doing business for large multinational companies. And while it is not yet business-as-usual for all mid-sized firms, that trend is changing, with the best performers already firmly ahead of the pack.
The latest research from business sustainability ratings expert EcoVadis has found that an increasing number of mid-sized organisations are now very much focused on this area, with a number of them even among the group recognised as Sustainable Procurement Leaders.
This CIPS Download whitepaper, produced in partnership with EcoVadis, examines what progress mid-sized firms have made, the benefits and challenges, and how larger businesses can – and should – support them to make further advances for mutual benefit.
EcoVadis is the world’s most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, intelligence and collaborative performance improvement tools for global supply chains. Backed by a powerful technology platform and a global team of domain experts, EcoVadis’ easy-to-use and actionable sustainability scorecards provide detailed insight into environmental, social and ethical risks across 190 purchasing categories and 150 countries.
Industry leaders such as Verizon, Johnson & Johnson, Subway, Coca Cola European Partners, Salesforce, Heineken, Renault-Nissan, ING Bank, and Nokia are among the more than 50,000 businesses on the EcoVadis network, all working with a single methodology to evaluate, collaborate and improve sustainability performance in order to protect their brands, foster transparency and innovation, and accelerate growth.
EcoVadis is driven by a diverse team of over 500 talented professionals from 40+ nationalities, based in our worldwide offices - Paris, Mauritius, New York, Warsaw, Tunis, Hong Kong, London, Toronto and many more remote offices.
