Purchasing the Future You Want

This purchasing guide from HP provides a good template for how you can leverage sustainability procurement to advance your sustainability goals. It provides a summary of the relationship between sustainable procurement and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals; the aspirational model of the circular economy ecosystem; and the benefits HP has experienced in aligning its sustainability goals with supply chain impact.

Procurement specialists and sustainability change agents will particularly benefit from the guide’s evaluative criteria on designing products for circularity and on supplier transparency and performance. Although the content focuses on information technology, the principles and scope can be extended to apply in other procurement areas.