Circular Supply Chains: Leveraging the power of strategic procurement

Course Overview

Author: Joyce Halloun

This course outlines the key differences between traditional and circular procurement processes and explains these two frameworks relating to standards, principles, and best practices. 

The course highlights collaboration and partnership at multiple levels to bring massive change to the traditional linear system and open the doors for innovative business models. In addition, it gives a clear understanding of the impact of circular procurement on a small and large scale. 

The small-scale impacts that this course reveals include:  

• The importance of the impact of procurement on the overall supply chain to enable professionals.

• The connection between Circular Economy principles and circular supply chains, besides its key components and the vital role it plays in circularity.

• The acceleration points that advance the application of circular supply chains.

The large-scale impacts that this course reveals include:  

• The outcomes involved in the public sector leveraging its purchasing power can bring positive outcomes and advance the application of circular procurement. 

• How Corporations and SMEs deal with the requirements of moving from linear to circular procurement.

• The barriers that organizations and industries worldwide face.

• Limitations to circular procurement practices.

This course expresses the urgency to take action now, embody a leadership attitude, and implement Circular Economy principles in scopes of work.