Strategic IT procurement helps you drive sustainable progress

Today, many organizations place sustainability high up on the agenda. The priority is often to reduce negative impacts from the core business. However, indirect social and environmental impacts are often far more significant than those that stem from core business. Procurement can be a really useful way to advance the sustainability agenda in your organization. Strategic, sustainable procurement can help make your sustainability work more solid, and allow you to build a strong brand among employees and external stakeholders.

IT brands often implement changes as a direct response to market intentions. Even though the IT industry has raised its sustainability ambitions in recent years, risks remain high. Many brands wait for purchaser demand before taking bigger steps in the right direction. By including relevant sustainability criteria and giving them enough weight in the procurement process, you can help drive the industry in a sustainable direction.

Including comprehensive, challenging environmental and social sustainability criteria in procurement can help your organization reduce its climate footprint and other environmental impacts and avoid social supply chain risks. Circular criteria can also help you reduce costs and improve the best overall value of your IT usage.

TCO Certified helps get your voice directly into the IT supply chain, where the majority of the product’s lifetime sustainability impacts are found. Criteria are designed to drive change where it matters most, and purchasers asking for TCO Certified is the signal that sets the process in motion. Certificates are valid globally and allow organizations around the world to stand behind the same requirements to form a clear, unified voice that more effectively pushes the industry towards more sustainable practice.