标准2025可持续采购可以改善供应商的关系——以及你的业务。刚刚出版了用于可持续采购的ISO 20400标准，以帮助公司进行可持续采购，形成一种生活方式。
无论公司大小，采购在公司里扮演着重要的角色。公司从哪里购买东西对其业绩的影响与它所购买的影响一样大。确保供应商运营良好，操作规范——从工作条件、风险管理到环境影响——不仅能让生意兴旺，还能改善社区里每个人的生活。
可持续的采购需要做出符合公司需求的采购决策，以造福于公司、社会和环境。它包括确保公司的供应商遵守职业道德，确保购买的产品和服务是可持续的，确保这样的购买决定有助于解决社会、经济和环境问题。
ISO 20400，可持续采购——指南，是世界上第一项关于可持续采购国际标准，旨在帮助公司制定和实施可持续采购规范和政策。
ISO /PC277主席雅克.施拉姆（Jacques Schramm）是制定这一标准的项目委员会主席，他说可持续采购的好处是深远的。“对于企业来说依靠供应商来提供他们想要的东西是不够的。公司开始了解自己的供应商将会受益匪浅——也要了解他们的需求——以确保他们的要求切合实际，合作的供应商有良好的职业道德。”，他解释道。
“不理解整个供应链，也不管整个过程中的行为，其风险是巨大的。最好的情况是，产品质量低劣，存货破损。最糟糕的情况是，像2013年孟加拉国的拉纳广场发生的灾祸可能会重演。可持续采购有助于减少诸如此类的风险，鼓励买家和供应商紧密合作，为所有人提供更好的结果。”
ISO 20400为公司提供了指导方针，将可持续性贯穿到企业的采购政策和流程中。它是对可持续采购原则如责任、透明度、人权的尊重、道德行为等的一个诠释。
You are what you buy – the first International Standard for sustainable procurement just published
Sustainable purchasing can improve supplier relations – and your business. ISO 20400 for sustainable procurement has just been published to help organizations make sustainable purchasing a way of life.
Procurement plays a large role in any organization, large or small. Who an organization buys from has just as big an impact on its performance as what it buys. Ensuring suppliers have sound and ethical practices – across everything from working conditions and risk management to their environmental impact – has the potential to not only make businesses work better, but to improve the lives of everyone in the communities where they are situated.
Sustainable procurement entails making purchasing decisions that meet an organization’s needs in a way that benefits them, society and the environment. It involves ensuring that a company’s suppliers behave ethically, that the products and services purchased are sustainable and that such purchasing decisions help to address social, economic and environmental issues.
ISO 20400, Sustainable procurement – Guidance, is the world’s first International Standard for sustainable procurement and aims to help organizations develop and implement sustainable purchasing practices and policies.
Jacques Schramm, Chair of ISO/PC 277, the project committee that developed the standard, says the benefits of sustainable procurement can be far-reaching. “It is no longer enough for businesses to rely on suppliers to provide them with what they want, no questions asked. Organizations benefit greatly from getting to know their suppliers – understanding what their requirements are as well – to ensure their demands are not unrealistic and that the suppliers they work with have good, ethical practices,” he explains.
“The risks of not understanding and managing practices throughout the whole supply chain are great. At best, poor quality products or ruptures of stock can result. At worst, disasters like the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh in 2013 can happen. Sustainable procurement helps to minimize risks such as these by encouraging buyers and suppliers to work closely together for a better result for all.”
ISO 20400 provides guidelines for integrating sustainability into an organization’s procurement policy strategy and process, defining the principles of sustainable procurement such as accountability, transparency, respect for human rights and ethical behaviour.