The document discusses procurement and purchasing strategies for sustainable facilities and services. It recommends using triple bottom line measures that consider social, environmental and economic impacts. It also suggests validating suppliers' capabilities during sourcing, testing their competitiveness during purchasing, and establishing compliance mechanisms in contracts. Finally, it advocates collaborating to improve supply chain sustainability by focusing on business cases, leveraging quality initiatives, and sharing best practices.

1. Purchasing
&
Procurement
for
Sustainable
Facili6es
&
Services
Yang
Ke
Green
Drinks
Shanghai,
September
2014

2. Triple Bottom Line Measures
for Facilities & Services
• Social Measures:
– labor practices, community impact, human rights, product
responsibility
• Environment Measures:
– Air quality, water quality, energy use, waste generated
• Economic Measures:
– Sales (ROI, profits), Taxes, Cash Flow, Employment opportunity

3. Procurement and Purchasing
for the Best Facilities & Services’ Value
• Sourcing:
– to validate suppliers’ capabilities as supported by records of their
internal processes, operational procedures, past performance, reference
projects
• Purchasing:
– to test suppliers’ competitiveness: ROI
analysis, specification compliance, cost
normalization,
• Contracts execution:
– to establish mechanism or processes
to ensure legal/regulatory compliance,
client’ policies,

4. Collaborations & Innovations
to Improve Supply Chain Sustainability
• Be effective and cost efficient, focus on the
business case
• Leverage experience from quality Incident
Free Journey
• Work together as we have with
environmental regulations
• Share best practices to help accelerate
learning
“The
sustainability
sweet
spot:
the
place
where
the
pursuit
of
profits
blends
seamlessly
with
the
pursuit
of
the
common
good”
Andrew
Savitz,
The
Triple
BoAom
Line