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Procurement teams sit at the most important control point in any organisation's ESG programme — they decide which suppliers enter the value chain and on what terms.
Yet in most organisations, procurement professionals lack the ESG-specific knowledge and tools to exercise that control effectively.
This course gives procurement teams the practical capability to embed ESG and sustainability into every stage of the supplier lifecycle. Content covers ESG risk profiling and supplier segmentation, defining ESG criteria for supplier selection and pre-qualification, designing and evaluating supplier ESG questionnaires, understanding what self-reported data does and does not tell you, commissioning and interpreting third-party supplier audits (social, environmental, and governance), conducting desktop and on-site supplier ESG verification, evaluating supplier ESG audit reports and red flags, contractual ESG provisions and supplier codes of conduct, supplier onboarding processes that embed ESG obligations from day one, ongoing monitoring and escalation frameworks, and managing remediation and continuous improvement with non-conforming suppliers.
The course connects procurement practice to the regulatory obligations that make supplier ESG verification mandatory — including CSDDD, ESRS S2 and G1, German LkSG, French Duty of Vigilance Law, and modern slavery legislation — without treating compliance as the primary motivation.
Throughout, the course emphasises that procurement professionals are not auditors and not compliance officers, but that they are the first line of defence in supply chain ESG risk management and need to operate accordingly.
Suitable for procurement managers, category managers, supplier relationship managers, and supply chain leads responsible for ESG integration across supplier portfolios.
Procurement teams sit at the most important control point in any organisation's ESG programme — they decide which suppliers enter the value chain and on what terms.
Yet in most organisations, procurement professionals lack the ESG-specific knowledge and tools to exercise that control effectively.
This course gives procurement teams the practical capability to embed ESG and sustainability into every stage of the supplier lifecycle. Content covers ESG risk profiling and supplier segmentation, defining ESG criteria for supplier selection and pre-qualification, designing and evaluating supplier ESG questionnaires, understanding what self-reported data does and does not tell you, commissioning and interpreting third-party supplier audits (social, environmental, and governance), conducting desktop and on-site supplier ESG verification, evaluating supplier ESG audit reports and red flags, contractual ESG provisions and supplier codes of conduct, supplier onboarding processes that embed ESG obligations from day one, ongoing monitoring and escalation frameworks, and managing remediation and continuous improvement with non-conforming suppliers.
The course connects procurement practice to the regulatory obligations that make supplier ESG verification mandatory — including CSDDD, ESRS S2 and G1, German LkSG, French Duty of Vigilance Law, and modern slavery legislation — without treating compliance as the primary motivation.
Throughout, the course emphasises that procurement professionals are not auditors and not compliance officers, but that they are the first line of defence in supply chain ESG risk management and need to operate accordingly.
Suitable for procurement managers, category managers, supplier relationship managers, and supply chain leads responsible for ESG integration across supplier portfolios.