SUPPLY CHAIN SUSTAINABILITY
Indirect procurement is not some quibbling matter that can be overlooked . Consensus ’ count has it at 30-70 % of procurement ’ s overall spend . The challenges are laid bare then . As one insider , Daniel Usifoh , the Co-Founder of Axiom Sustainability Software , puts it : “ Sustainability doesn ’ t stop at the four walls of your business – it extends to the entire supply chain – but managing and controlling third-party data has the capacity to get very complicated .”
“ Sustainability doesn ’ t stop at the four walls of your business – it extends to the entire supply chain ”
DANIEL USIFOH CO-FOUNDER , AXIOM SUSTAINABILITY SOFTWARE
What emerges , then , is a disjunct between companies keeping an eye on their own emissions – their own environmental performance – and these secondary affiliates that are , essentially , outside contracted players .
But if a company indeed cares about its sustainability performance , how does it ensure that its partners falling under the category of ‘ indirect procurement ’ are keeping up their end of green responsibility ? Are they doing what they should ? If they are , great . If they ’ re not , how does that affect the sustainability performance of the main player , the big company that professes to be doing right by Mother Earth ?
122 March 2023