World Sustainable Procurement Day; Coupa Inspire; Sustainable cities - Supply Chain Council of European Union

World Sustainable Procurement Day — Is today

Today, spring equinox 2022, is the first ever World Sustainable Procurement Day — presented by the Sustainable Procurement Pledge (SPP) — 24 hours of many different online sessions focusing on empowering and equipping procurement practitioners with knowledge, best practice approaches and practical solutions to sustainability challenges that our profession needs to tackle.

Sessions include: How responsible procurement can protect supply chain workers from modern slavery and labor exploitation; Sustainable packaging, the need for strategy and the pivotal role of procurement; What tools can procurement use now for addressing climate change with suppliers, and many more.

Spend Matters has produced a lot of material, research, analysis and advice on sustainable procurement, and our analyst Nick Heinzmann will provide an update in our upcoming newsletter on what we’ve been doing around the subject since the launch of our ESG series — sign up here.

How sustainable procurement can create value in your corporate supply chain strategy

How can corporate supply chains create social and environmental impact? One clear answer is through social procurement.

“From the social business perspective, the benefit of social procurement is clear,” says Yunus Social Business (YSB), “working with large corporations can help social entrepreneurs to scale their business operations and increase their impact. But what is the benefit to the corporations? According to the global study carried out by YSB called The Social Procurement Manual, social procurement offers corporations a handful of strategic advantages, find out more here.

Meet our analysts at Coupa Inspire

Coupa Inspire US will take place in Las Vegas April 4-7 and Coupa Inspire EMEA will take place in Berlin on May 16-18.

Come introduce yourself to our analysts Pierre Mitchell and Xavier Olivera in Las Vegas, and Bertrand Maltaverne in Berlin. Coupa’s flagship event returns in person this year to unite a global community of procurement, finance, supply chain and IT leaders and practitioners for two days of networking, inspiring talks and intelligence sharing. There’s an impressive list of speakers at this year’s Inspire; titled United by the Power of Spend it will see the launch of The Spendsetters Awards — recognizing the visionary leaders who revolutionize Business Spend Management and highlighting catalysts for change by giving them a platform to showcase their success leveraging Coupa technology.

If you’d like to arrange a chat with one of our analysts feel free to reach out to our Global Head of Strategic Accounts, Jenny Draper at [email protected]

AWS Sustainable Cities Accelerator

Public Spend Forum is busy helping innovative emerging/diverse small businesses and government market buyers/programs to connect, collaborate and grow together.

One joint initiative is the Sustainable Cities Accelerator, by AWS and Freshwater. This is a virtual six-week, technical, business and mentorship accelerator program from May 15 – June 30, 2022. AWS is accepting applications from mature cleantech startups working on solutions for mobility and transportation, including micro-mobility, last-mile delivery, urban parking and route optimization, electronic vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and applications, Internet of Things transportation, and traffic solutions, and other solutions to promote sustainable transportation.