Leveraging Your Buying Power

Business cannot be a bystander in the society in which it operates.

– Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever

This chapter will help you understand the main drivers of sustainable IT vendor management and procurement and its role in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) agenda. By leveraging your buying power, you can influence your supply chain of IT vendors to address environmental and social issues and do so openly and consistently.

The main objectives of this chapter are to introduce you to the different facets of sustainable IT vendor management and procurement and how these disciplines can be leveraged to make your supply chain more trustworthy and transparent.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Drivers for sustainable IT vendor and procurement management
• Essential IT sustainability requirements
• Sustainable IT procurement from start to end
• Sustainable IT vendor management
• IT vendor...