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.
Indirect Spend Alliance
Best practices & tools for Indirect Procurement Sustainability
Leaders in indirect procurement from some of the world's most prominent corporations - including fortune 500 companies - express increasing concerns about the lack of attention, understanding, and resources available to ensure the protection of human rights and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in indirect spend categories within their supply chains.
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We work under 3 key principles
Clarity
Providing procurement with:
- Relevant, easy-to-access insight of the key risks and opportunities in each category, in categories that matter to them.
- Tools that save time understanding what question to ask, getting meaningful data, and focusing 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.
- Coordination across multiple initiatives that supports a consistent approach and reduces duplication of effort.
Our mission
What We Do & Where We Operate
The indirect spend alliance operates across:
- Warehousing
- Construction
- Technology & Cloud Services
- Waste & Recycling
- Road Freight
- Logistics & Last Mile Delivery
- Marketing & Advertising
- Energy & Utilities
- Recruitment agencies
- Onsite Services
Delivering:
- Category-specific insights and materials on the key risks, opportunities, initiatives, and essential tools for your procurement teams.
- A streamlined due diligence and supplier improvement process, including access to risk screen data, fit-for-purpose assessments, and supply chain engagement tools.
- Best-practice sharing sessions that focus on suppliers, buyer companies, and experts in priority categories, with discussions centered around peer sharing, up-skilling, and collaboration.
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Transform your procurement strategy and drive excellence in indirect spend management. Join the Indirect Spend Alliance now and connect with industry leaders who are shaping the future of procurement.
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