Sustainability
Why sustainability should matter to you
Your contribution to your companies’ competitive capacities
Because of the various interfaces to internal and external stakeholders and as the manager of external value creation, procurement plays a central role when it comes to ingraining sustainability in one’s company and along supply chains.
Procurement managers decide how, where, and what things are bought. This bestows them with the responsibility whether or not sustainable products flow into the company and out toward customers in sustainable ways. Procurement departments also determine to what extent products with high material intensity, above-average carbon footprints or with connections to human rights violations get purchased. With this lever, procurement departments can affect not only internal economic operations and activities but also positively impact entire supply chains while generating benefits to climate, environment, and society.
2/3 of the social and ecological footprint of a company lies in their supply chain. A transparent, active, and cooperative supplier management is, therefore, of extreme importance.
Actively manage your challenges
A major challenge for procurement departments lies in the transparency of sustainability-relevant factors across entire supply chains in order to assess current and potential suppliers. This necessary transparency is often missing, as it is difficult and time-intensive to generate.
Use GMVK to increase your procurement success
We support you effectively as part-time employees because we combine our procurement-know-how of GMVK Procurement Group with Business Intelligence solutions by our subsidiary 4EBIT Software & Services to maximize your benefit.
Regarding sustainable procurement, we understand ourselves as an integration and consulting specialist, providing a BI platform that produces a single “source of truth” which connects all the necessary data and information, enabling the procurement department to successfully combine sustainability and economics. The basis for this is an effective and efficient supplier management.
We deliver in joint projects with our customers:
- Transparency across all necessary facts and figures for your supplier assessments, enabling objective and purpose-driven supplier development
- Build-up of proactive risk-management from environmental, social, and reputational perspectives
- Successfully meeting of the German Supply Chain Act requirements while using it to improve your procurement department and supply chain
- Establishment of sustainable procurement including the selection of sustainable suppliers
- Evaluating CO2-Footprint at product level
- Support in energy purchasing and management
- Supply chain mapping & n-Tier transparency
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GMVK Procurement Group and 4EBIT have integrated sustainability deeply within their internal policies and processes, while also acting as an external sustainability ambassador. We support SustainablyRun Meetings, planting trees for every online meeting. Other engagements include Business-for-Nature! AfB Social and Green IT, Ecosia, and more!
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