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报告摘要

Sourcing a Sustainable Future: Report Summary

Key Findings

Sourcing’s Role
Sustainability is central to turning organizational ambition into tangible action. Procurement is pivotal to managing supplier-related ESG risk, addressing emissions, and enabling circular practices.
Globally Critical
- ESG Trend: Sustainability metrics are becoming mandatory (e.g., U.S. SEC climate rules) and are reshaping how companies track environmental impact, human rights, and supply chain transparency.
- Skills Gap: Procurement teams often lack the strategy, tools, or incentives to support sustainability goals reliably (e.g., only 22% view procurement as actively supporting).
Major Obstacles
- Alignment Issues: Few organizations have dedicated sustainability teams or C-level executive commitment.
- Financial Investment: Underfunding; less than 2% of budgets allocated to ESG activities, leading to perfunctory efforts.
- Data Challenges: Fragmented data sources, centralized governance absence, and resistance to tracking sustainability performance.
Proposed Strategies
Procurement can spearhead six key pathways:
- 1. Reduce Emissions: Categorize emissions into Scope 1-3; prioritize impactful areas (e.g., truck electrification).
- 2. Adopt an ESG Mindset: Embed sustainability in supplier evaluation and co-create ESG roadmaps.
- 3. Capture Better Data: Aggregate carbon metrics and leverage AI/cloud tools for auditing/inventory.
- 4. Build an Intelligent Model: Use data to track supplier progress and inform engagements.
- 5. Green Skilling: Upskill teams, linking ESG influence to career growth.
- 6. Re-evaluate Spend: Prioritize ESG-aligned categories through a sustainability scorecard.
Final Imperative
Success requires championing sustainability at C-level, abandoning silos, and adopting a systemic mindset to balance ambitions with profitability.