Sustainability was important to organizations and procurement teams before the global COVID-19 pandemic, and has now become an even bigger imperative for most in 2021. With consumers, governments and business partners all demanding that companies pay more attention to the size of their carbon footprints, procurement is helping those organizations meet those demands and achieve their sustainability goals.
In their new “Sustainable Procurement Barometer 2021” report, the Stanford Graduate School of Business and EcoVadis say that as a result of the pandemic, companies now realize that their sustainability practices contributed to the “resilience of their value chains” and helped them endure the COVID-19 crisis.
