帽子到我们四位发言者（和椅子，SAP Ariba的James Marland）上周在花费物质上辩论 - 他们真的热情，吸引力和 - 相当嘈杂！但这一切都达到了许多观众参与和问题的伟大辩论 - 我们将在最后一篇文章中获取那些。现在，让我们来看看争论的论点：'This house believes that Procurement with Purpose can save the world.’
在你决定自己的投票之前要记住的关键事情是“与”和“可以的两个词。”我们正在谈论采购withpurpose– not traditional procurement. This means, in this context, that procurement professionals and procurement functions should consider issues of “purpose” and “responsibility” when working with their supply chains and suppliers above the traditional goals of meeting basic supply needs at the lowest possible cost.
Procurement functions and professionals should go beyond the basics and help elevate the function, delivering more business value by aligning with and driving the organisation’s higher purpose of social value. Decision making can affect individuals, the environment and society positively. Socan如果它有这个目的，那就做到这一点？在接下来的两篇文章中，我们将介绍和反对的论点 - 然后我们会看到......
First up, and proposing the motion, was Martine Booth, Head of Business Development EMEA for SAP Ariba with previous experience inOracle.and Procuri.
She set the scene for her argument by taking the human rights, working conditions and environmental stance. No-one wants more plastic in the sea than fish, she said - and highlighting how legislation and social media can come together to make a difference she cited the excellent recent BBC Blue Planet series.
She had a fair few stats up her sleeve too – like 168 million children around the world in slave labour, 60% of which in agriculture, that’s 11% of the global child population. She talked about the dreadful Rana Plaza factory collapse, and the amount of child labour in tobacco plantations in Indonesia, to name a few.
然后，她继续通过立法禁止塑料载体袋和星巴克（其他链）移动的进展，以推动他们的供应链以获得可回收的杯子创新。她给了一个例子，重新收获塑料（如荷兰）到地面道路。Primark是如何监控和更改供应链滥用的示例。所以很多好事可以完成，是这一点，并通过采购完成，因为它们是决策者并拥有购买权。
Money talks, she said. We spend $12 trillion a year on goods and services, and procurement can influence the majority of that. It’s about how, what and where we buy. We have ability to buy responsibly and efficiently. And it’s not just about ceasing to trade with unethical suppliers – that achieves very little – it’s about re-educating and investing in behaviours.
她引用了联合利华作为一个组织的例子，以便在其团队中调查供应链弊端并理解根本原因，而不是夺走人民的生计 - 这也是负责任的行动。所以总之，大企业已经乱七八糟，他们必须清理它，它是通过伦理，可持续和负责任行动的最大差异。
Andy Davies, ex-Director of London Universities Purchasing Consortium, supporter of social value concepts and one of the driving forces behind the great initiative of Electronics Watch, and now working with the Mayor of London’s team on “procurement with purpose” issues, also stepped up to support the motion.
安迪的前提是，目的的采购不应被视为加载项，它应该已经生活在采购专业人士的核心。他用冰岛食品的快速想象的情景说明了这一点 - 如果首席执行官和创始人要求供应链导演淘汰淘汰塑料袋会怎样？
如果那位高管回答“我不知道 - 这不是我的核心责任 - 我是减少成本”，那么他们可能不再是工作！这是关于核心业务，获得市场份额和声誉。并翻译成公共部门，这种核心责任更为重要，这是为了使我们生活在一个更美好的地方。More local government bodies and elected representatives are looking at how suppliers can bring “social value” to towns and cities, above and beyond the delivery requirements of the contract.
He also talked about the role of Electronics Watch and how it brings together public authorities to monitor human rights abuses, working with the brands to develop better social responsibility and behaviour. One success story he recounted involved this kind of collaboration with suppliers over full-time students ‘forced’ as part of their vocational studies to work in electronics factories in China as a kind of internship (supported by local government to get orders fulfilled); when the manufacturers sent in their auditors, following discussions with the suppliers, the practice ceased.
So this is a story of how working together, and changing the mindset of the supply chain, can make a real difference, not only to the lives of the students but to the universities who might eventually enrol them and the businesses that will employ them. So CSR is not a nice extra, it’s the heart of what we do and that is what will lead to competitive advantage.
And inpart 2我们将为您带来反对运动的论点 - 从我们自己的彼得史密斯和未来购买的标记韦伯。
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