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Indirect Spend Alliance

Best Practices & Tools for Indirect Procurement

Leaders in indirect procurement from some of the world’s most prominent retailers, brands, and corporations – including Accenture, Amazon, AstraZeneca, LEGO Group, PMI, IKEA Ingka Group, Target, Hershey’s, Coles, GSK, Sky Comcast NBCUniversal, JLL, and Evri – have expressed increasing concerns about the lack of attention, understanding, and resources available to ensure the protection of human rights and reduce emissions in certain indirect spend categories within their supply chains.

The Indirect Spend Alliance

WORKS UNDER 3 KEY PRINCIPLES!

Clarity

Providing procurement with:

  • Relevant, easy-to-access insight of the key risks and opportunities in their category, in their language.
  • Tools that save time in understanding what questions to ask and focus activity where it is most impactful.

Category-Specific

Providing category managers with:

  • Best-practice, consistent and specific methods for assessing risk and opportunities in their suppliers.
  • Insight that reflects the nuances and reality in their categories, which leave current, generic approaches unfit for purpose.

Collaboration

Providing responsible sourcing with:

  • Greater leverage over indirect suppliers, quality of best practices, and collaborative supplier engagement to reduce fatigue.
  • Comfort that our co-ordination across multiple initiatives will support a consistent approach and reduce duplication of effort

Our Mission

The mission of the Indirect Spend Alliance is to coordinate and create responsible sourcing best-practice across selected indirect spend categories, making it easy for procurement to implement them!

What We Do &
Where We Operate

THE INDIRECT SPEND ALLIANCE OPERATES ACROSS:

  • Logistics & Last-mile Delivery
  • FM/Property/Onsite Services
  • Waste, Recycling & Environmental Services
  • Professional Services
  • Technology
  • Brand & Marketing Services

Delivering:

  • A single, category-specific matrix of the key risks, opportunities, initiatives, and tools for your procurement teams.
  • Best-practice sharing sessions that focus on suppliers and companies doing well in priority categories and discussions centered around understanding what strategic partnerships can provide.
  • Engagement with relevant, category-specific initiatives to ensure alignment and de-duping of efforts.
  • A developed and shared due diligence and improvement process, including new fit-for-purpose assessments for gaps in the matrix loaded and available on a networked platform.

How Do We Accomplish This?

The Indirect Spend Alliance is Chaired by Oliver Hurrey, Chair of the Sustainable Procurement Pledge, The Scope 3 Peer Group, and leverages his industry 16 years of expertise in sustainable supply chains, all while delivering and leveraging a partnership with TwentyFifty, a leading human rights and sustainability consultancy and SupplyShift, a networked, supply chain sustainability data platform.

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