Introduction to circular procurement

Course details

• Venue: This is an online event. The Microsoft Teams link will be shared with the participant upon the confirmation of payment.
• Dates: 09th & 10th December 2024 or 3rd & 4th March 2025 (The course is offered 2 occasions and participants can select between the two options)
• Time: 9.00AM - 3.00PM

About the course

• Are you facing difficulties in transitioning your procurement function towards a circular economy and challenging your current needs?
• Is getting everyone on board with adopting circular procurement proving to be a struggle?
• Are you finding it hard to determine which trade-offs are acceptable in your procurement decisions?

Our full course "Introduction to circular procurement” is for you, if these are some of your challenges!

This course aims to: 

• create awareness on the difference in approach in tackling circular procurement enhance understanding on relevant tools for decision making and procurement approaches to adopt in promoting a circular economy
• provide guidance and ways of incorporating circular procurement practices within an organization

Course content

This training will have 4 modules with each module having relevant case studies and interactive activities, with time allocated for discussion of practical problems faced.  

The four modules presented will have the following content. 

1. Introduction to circular procurement  
   1. Understanding differences between sustainable, green, and circular procurement  
   2. Understanding the role of policy and key activation points for circular procurement 
2. Procuring product service systems   
   1. Understanding different types of product-service systems   
   2. Challenging the demand and pushing for outcome-oriented purchasing  
   3. Understanding how to redefine demand for circular procurement 
3. Tools for decision making  
   1. Understanding procedural and analytical tools used for decision making  
   2. Enabling systematic evaluations involving multiple criteria
   3. Enabling the use of the full cost of ownership in procurement 
4. Enabling circular procurement within organisations  
   1. Analysing your organisational setting for procurement transformation   
   2. Enabling innovation in procurement -Procurement for innovation approach  
   3. Enabling risk sharing and collaboration with suppliers in procurement

About the Lead course designer and trainer

Dr. Mayuri Wijayasundara. Director, Anvarta

Mayuri is a leading expert in strategy and transformation specialising in enablers of transition towards a circular economy. Mayuri currently leads Anvarta, a management consulting practice that advocates circular economy and helps organisations with their transition. She was also engaged as Circular Economy Expert at UN Habitat. 

Mayuri was a tenured University academic leading multiple research programs in circular economy until 2021, where she was the Deakin Lead Investigator and a Chief Investigator for Australian Research Council funded Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Transformation of Waste Resources to Engineered Materials and Solutions for a Circular Economy (TREMS). Mayuri has authored several research articles and is a contributor to acclaimed international forums such as World Economic Forum. 

Mayuri joined academia following a career as a senior industry practitioner for nearly a decade, where she has formulated and led programs driving strategic industrial and organisational transformation initiatives in the Asia Pacific. Mayuri obtained her PhD from the University of Melbourne and is a Chartered Global Management Accountant of CIMA, UK. She currently holds several board and advisory committee positions in public and private sector, industry bodies and professional organisations. 

For more information: Website | LinkedIn | Deakin Uni | World Economic Forum | Google Scholar | The Conversation  

Relevant research published by the trainer

1. Green procurement for a circular economy: What influences purchasing of products with recycled material and recovered content by public sector organisations? 
2. Identifying the drivers and barriers of the public sector procurement of products with recycled material or recovered content: A systematic review and research propositions 
3. Greening the procurement: a SMART evaluation of environmental sustainability in Australian government purchasing policies

About Anvarta

Anvarta is a professional practice​ that provide strategy and policy advisory, consulting and project management services to organisations. We specialize in helping organisations to transition to a circular economy​ and help transform business models, products, supply chains, markets in line with the principles of circular economy. One of the key areas we focus on is capacity building towards a circular and clean economy and in facilitating organisational transition. We drive innovation through research and development in this area, and have a portfolio or products and services that we have developed and in progress presently.  

Our typical products and services include;

• a range of courses that aim capacity building of professionals in transition to a circular economy 
• advisory and consulting services covering concept creation to strategy formulation​, leading to constructing detailed roadmaps for organisations
• analytical solutions, including material flow analysis, life cycle analysis and life cycle costing
• support for new initiative integration and operationalization, including change and transformation management

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