1. Delivering benefit through partnership ‘Sustain’ Project 11 th June 2014 Stephen Connor, Process and Best Practice Coordination Manager, APUC

2. Project Drivers Student Voice Organisational Objectives Reputation External and Internal pressure Good practise Value for money Sector spend Risk Sustainable Supply Chain Project

3. Delivering benefit through partnership University of Edinburgh, EUSA, University of Aberdeen, AUSA, NUS (Scotland), People and Planet, Glasgow School of Art, EAUC, University of Dundee and University of Stirling. – Procurement staff – Sustainability advisers – Student representatives (institutional and independent organisations) – NGO’s (People and Planet) – collaboration with Electronics Watch (Advisory Group and Founder Member) Code of Conduct covering Social, Ethical, Economic and Environmental issues. Use this as our standard to assess supplier compliance against. http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/#!/suscode.php Working Group

4. Delivering benefit through partnership

5. 1.Pre Tender – Strategy Marrakech Impact Assessment 2.Tender – CoC / ITT wording / Questions Mandate supplier involvement with audit process Request compliance to Code of Conduct Ask questions that reflect Impact Assessment issues 3.Post Tender – Contract Management / Supply Chain Audit Prioritise using Marrakech tool Assess supply chain compliance to our Code of Conduct using web based tool Develop a tool useable by Institutions as well as APUC

6. Delivering benefit through partnership APUC Hunter contract database – available sector wide – is the starting point of the audit process. Purely collaborative spend on Hunter, 2012/13 full year APUC/NEUPC/NWUPC/SUPC/LUPC/HEPCW 418 Institutions/Organisations 580 suppliers £881,000,000 spend Over HALF of that is with just 20 suppliers; in Libraries, IT, Travel and Utilities. Collaboration gives Scope for Influence to Change Non-Collaborative spend is still to be added…………………

7. Delivering benefit through partnership APUC Supply Chain Audit – web tool Developed in conjunction with the Sector Direct link to Hunter contract database Eliminates duplication of effort You choose when to invite your suppliers to start the process Enables suppliers to build up an understanding of their supply chain Suppliers can see their score/place against other Category/Agreement suppliers See how suppliers compare against competitors Improve supplier understanding and compliance – ‘gap analysis’ Institutions can see the global location of supply chains and associated risk (planned development) Suppliers can track the status of their supply chain Understand supply chain risks Useable by Institutions Buyers can see compliance level of suppliers

8. Delivering benefit through partnership APUC Sustainable Supply Chain Project Status: Ongoing awareness raising (EAUC/UUK/HoC) In Phase 2 testing (end to end process) currently Re-designing question structure and web design Aim for handover and early supplier testing to commence end mid July 2014 Formal launch September 2014 Ongoing development work (country risk mapping / gap analysis) www.nanoit.co.uk/apucwww.nanoit.co.uk/apuc - Contract Manager view www.nanoit.co.uk/apucwww.nanoit.co.uk/apuc - Supplier view www.nanoit.co.uk/apucwww.nanoit.co.uk/apuc - Validator view www.nanoit.co.uk/apucwww.nanoit.co.uk/apuc - Results view

10. Suppliers home page showing a validated response

11. Public view results page (after searching for an agreement)