Aligning procurement with purpose
Around the world, organisations have made sustainability a fundamental design principle of both how they want to do business and the organisations that they wish to become. With supply chains key to achieving these sustainability goals, Proxima’s Sustainable Procurement services support organisations in achieving more significant environmental and social impact from suppliers and making change stick through appropriate governance. Solutions range from diagnostics to decarbonisation and social value to capability transformation.
Many organisations have set ambitious, transformative sustainability targets that will not be met without substantive change both inside and out. Change must happen; while there are still some benefits to being a first mover, any hint of inertia or greenwashing risks severe reputational and financial damage. The onus is on procurement to update how procurement is done, refresh the stakeholder perception of value, and communicate with and mobilise meaningful solutions from suppliers, both standalone and in collaborative groups.
“Sustainable supply chains are more important to business than ever before. Procurement professionals must leverage skills, expertise, and talent to achieve strategic, sustainable business goals; the transformation of the procurement function and how it digitises, collaborates, and acts is crucial. Proxima has already evidenced they can successfully translate sustainability into value for procurement, and we need to see that happen faster than ever before.”
Oliver Hurrey, Chair of THE SCOPE 3 PEER GROUP
Translating sustainability into procurement value
The Proxima approach is practitioner-led consulting, with particular expertise in driving sustainable transformation (“how sustainable procurement is done”), collaboration, category-level change programmes, finding the best solutions in the market, or developing suppliers to meet current and future needs. We are also the home of The Scope 3 Benchmark, a collaborative maturity assessment and capability report built in conjunction with the Scope 3 Peer Group. You can expect:
- Expertise in both transformation and project delivery.
- Partner ecosystem for tech and niche specialism.
- A side-by-side delivery approach.
- Insights and capability packages from Scope 3 Benchmark.
Cost Transformation
Enabling ‘value’ for money, typically thought through sourcing and strategy work and supporting the delivery of complex programmes.
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Cost Transformation
With an average of 70% of a company’s revenues being spent with external suppliers, Cost Optimisation Services ensure best value is known, achieved, and maintained.
Capability Transformation
Leading, transforming or developing functions and teams, including their people, processes and technology.
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Capability Transformation
Building the right procurement model is not a one size fits all. Capability Transformation Services help organisations to build fresh or upgrade existing procurement models to boost impact.
Sustainable procurement
Delivering social value, decarbonisation and sustainable procurement programmes.
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Sustainable Procurement
With supply chains key to achieving sustainability goals, Sustainable Procurement Services support CPOs and their teams to consistently plan and achieve greater environmental and social impact.
Specialist Support
Targeted capability and programme support.
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Specialist Support
When business have specific projects or complex programmes to execute, Specialist Support Services bring expertise on demand to cover capacity and capability needs.
