Activating Sustainable Procurement For Compliance, Risk Mitigation and Impact

This session spotlights the latest findings from the recent IntegrityNext × CIPS practitioner report. It reveals how sustainable procurement is moving from aspiration to operating advantage and where leaders are focusing to turn effort into measurable outcomes.

Alexander Hellwig, Head Of Sustainability Content and Erik Richter, Sustainable Procurement Expert at FUCHS will unpack what high performers are doing differently across people, process, and technology, and share a practical path to unlock resilience, risk reduction, and executive trust without adding friction.

What you´ll learn

• Compliance, activated: A practical blueprint to embed criteria across the supplier lifecycle, with due diligence becoming routine, auditable, and efficient.
• Risk, reduced: How peers design controls that actually prevent trouble and why many already report fewer ESG incidents, avoiding disruptions as programs mature.
• Impact, evidenced: The fastest path from intention to proof, overcoming the #1 barrier and moving from “benefits observed” to KPIs and narratives executives trust.
• Where to invest next: A balanced mix of people, process, and technology, reflecting how 90% plan to fund enablement and data systems, even as 78% are still firming up ROI.
• Why this matters now: Strategic goals (reputation, resilience, cost, innovation) stand shoulder-to-shoulder with regulation, turning compliance into a durable advantage.

Who Should Attend & How You’ll Benefit

Procurement, supply chain, sustainability, finance, and legal leaders who want practitioner-grounded, CIPS-backed guidance you can share internally with actionable takeaways, credible talking points, and strategies to progress quickly from intent to impact.