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With practical lived experience as sustainability and procurement professionals, our team assists clients in fulfilling their sustainability commitments and ambitions by leveraging the power of procurement and supply chains. By aligning these aspects with organisational goals, we identify impacts, opportunities, and actionable steps to maximise their positive effects, backed by credible and defensible data.
Operating within traditional risk and governance frameworks, we craft best practice sustainable procurement and supply chain management policies and processes. This includes adopting Sustainable Procurement Guidance ISO 20400, circular procurement, decarbonisation, biodiversity, nature impacts, human rights, anti-modern slavery measures, and social procurement opportunities.
In close collaboration with our clients, we seamlessly integrate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations into their procurement strategy. Our services encompass risk and opportunity analysis, assessment and mapping, due diligence, category management plans and initiatives, materials and sustainability evaluation matrices, supplier engagement programs, capacity building, and performance management tactics.
Integrating sustainable procurement and supply chain management takes time and effort. It requires business transformation. The timeframe might be longer, but the techniques are familiar: clear objectives, buy-in from staff and stakeholders, planning, learning and refining.
Backed by Edge’s deep technical skills across the full sustainability spectrum, our Sustainable & Ethical Procurement services navigate the complexity of organisational risk management and governance to deliver targeted, holistic, and implementable sustainable procurement and supply chain outcomes. Our differentiator is bringing the practitioner lens in co-designing practical, implementable actions.
Harnessing procurement and engaging the supply chain is essential to achieving sustainability outcomes. We combine science, strategy and storytelling to help our clients deliver positive global impact. No matter what they want to achieve, or where they’re starting from. We do that by showcasing the role procurement plays in achieving positive impact to staff, suppliers and the communities that your organisation operates within.
We work with all organisations, sectors and industries that buy products and services. Our extensive experience ranges across all levels of public, private and not-for-profits, from small to medium business to large multi-nationals, multi-lateral partnerships and off-shore, global supply chains.
As experts in the full spectrum of sustainability topics, we are here to guide you through the complexity. Our team includes specialists from across the globe; from strategists to economists, engineers to creatives. Since 2008, we have been helping businesses, organisations, industries and societies make transformation happen.
Our areas of expertise are focussed around the following areas:
Leadership and Transformation
ESG and Strategy
Decarbonisation and Climate Resilience
Circular Economy and Lifecycle Thinking
Built Environment
Nature and Biodiversity
Brand, Communications and Creative
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