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Learn tools to align your organization with sustainable procurement principles, covering product selection and sustainable assessment methods.
Course overview:
This module covers three key areas:
- Understanding Procurement: Purchasing overview, circular economy principles, and stakeholder roles
- Green Acquisition Strategies: Acquiring the right products, sustainability labels, organizational strategies, and resource management
- Implementation: Beyond environmental impacts and incorporating procurement in lab sustainability
Through this module, you’ll learn to identify sustainable products, navigate sustainability labels, develop organizational purchasing strategies, manage resources after purchase, and incorporate procurement into comprehensive lab sustainability programs.
Key learning outcomes:
- Understand the full scope of procurement beyond simple purchasing transactions
- Apply circular economy principles to laboratory purchasing decisions
- Evaluate sustainability labels and product claims effectively
- Develop organizational strategies for sustainable procurement implementation
- Manage resources sustainably throughout their lifecycle in laboratory settings
Introduction
- Purchasing Overview
- The Circular Economy
- Stakeholders in Purchasing
- (1 Quiz)
How to green your acquisitions
- Acquiring the Right Products (2 topics)
- Sustainability Labels
- How You Buy
- Organizational Strategies
- Managing Resources After Purchase
- (1 Quiz)
Bringing it all together
- Beyond the Environmental Impacts
- Incorporating Procurement in Lab Sustainability
- (1 Quiz)
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