Essential Questions for Sustainable Procurement
Find out what you need to be asking your suppliers.
Tools to help you review the sustainability of your business and your suppliers.
About 70% of your business’ sustainability impact comes from your supply chain.*
So, as well as making sure your own house is in order it’s important to look at practices throughout your supply chain – whether you are a small-scale supplier or a corporate procuring from others.
Review how sustainable your business is, then ask your suppliers. Find out how to improve to win bids and report on your actions. Our Starter Q&As for Suppliers and resources can help you.
Starter Q&As for Suppliers
This series of Q&As will help you review your business in six key areas of sustainability: keeping workers healthy & safe, upholding workers’ rights, eliminating modern slavery, reducing carbon emissions, reducing waste, and nature regeneration. See where you’re doing well and learn how to share those success stories with your customers and suppliers. Identify where you can improve and get free tools and resources to help.
More Tools & Resources
EcoChoice Aotearoa's Sustainable Procurement Toolkit
Check out the toolkit from our friends at EcoChoice Aotearoa. It includes an updated section on human rights and social responsibility in the supply chain.
It’s even as simple as having a conversation with your suppliers and brands, and really learning about each step in the process. Docket has really helped encourage me to do that.
Hannah Sullivan, Sully’s
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* The business case is positive - evaluating ten procurement strategies for implementing sustainable procurement in New Zealand Organisations
Anne Staal, senior lecturer School of Future Environments, Auckland University of Technology