Mastering Sustainable Procurement and Supply Chain Management

Exactly there. Module four explains the language of tiers, why risk, resilience and compliance pressures all push visibility beyond tier one, and gives a step-by-step procedure for building the map from available data sources. It also deals with the practical question of what to map first, using criticality and risk screening, so a team with hundreds of suppliers knows where to begin.

Module six is dedicated to it. Participants learn the definitions and indicators of forced labor, the regulatory landscape from disclosure laws to import bans, where the risk hides by tier, sector and geography, and how human rights due diligence and remediation work in practice. Module twelve then places this inside a consolidated compliance program built around the OECD six-step due diligence process.

Module seven argues it can, if engagement is targeted. It starts with why most of the footprint sits with suppliers, moves measurement from spend-based estimates toward supplier-specific data, and then sets out an engagement model built on require, enable and incentivize. The emphasis is on choosing the suppliers and categories where engagement actually shifts emissions rather than spreading effort evenly across the base.

Module nine shows how a supplier code of conduct is written, which standards and initiatives it draws on, how it is cascaded down the chain and how compliance is verified and enforced. Module five gives quality and compliance teams the due diligence cycle, risk categories, supplier tiering and the screening, verification and scoring steps. Module eleven adds the collaborative side: joint improvement plans and incentives for suppliers worth developing.

By studying in the gaps. The content is self-paced on the Blue Ocean learning platform, on web and mobile app, with no scheduled sessions, so a buyer can pause for a tender and pick up afterwards. The administrator dashboard shows the procurement lead enrollment, progress and completion for the cohort, which makes it easy to set a completion window that avoids the busiest weeks.

Each buyer individually. A participant who completes all 15 modules and the practice assessments receives a digital, verifiable MBE credential in their own name. The function gets the aggregate: the administrator dashboard records enrollment, progress and completion for every licensed participant, which gives a procurement director evidence of team capability when a customer questionnaire or a regulator asks how supplier due diligence is staffed.

Use the Register Now button on this page. It opens Mastering Sustainable Procurement and Supply Chain Management on the Blue Ocean Academy website, where you can enroll and start learning at your own pace.