WAYFINDER STRATEGY FRAMEWORK SUSTAINABILITY IN PROCUREMENT LANGUAGE

Your procurement teams already have the skills to deliver sustainability outcomes. What they're missing is a framework that connects those skills to the task. WAYFINDER helps procurement professionals use the capabilities they already have to drive real progress on climate.

When you use the WAYFINDER STRATEGY FRAMEWORK you stop asking procurement people to become sustainability experts. Instead, you give them a translation layer: you help teams see where climate exposure sits in their categories and how to address it using commercial mechanisms they already understand - market analysis, commercial structuring, negotiation, contract management, supplier management.

The framework structures strategic options across five stages of the procurement lifecycle: Define, discover, negotiate, consume, innovate.

At each stage, it gives teams flexible, practical pathways to integrate sustainability into the heart of supplier relationships — not as an add-on, but as part of how the deal gets done. The result is sustainability requirements that don't get negotiated away, supplier conversations that go somewhere, contracts that hold.

WAYFINDER has already been adopted by major organisations ranging from HSBC to Global Optimism. Advisory support is available for teams that want help building it into operational practice.

Talk to us if your procurement function is under pressure to deliver on Scope 3 and needs a practical way in.

PART OF THE WAYFINDER FAMILY

The WAYFINDER STRATEGY FRAMEWORK is a foundational piece of the WAYFINDER family.
Each element can be engaged independently, although we find they work best in combination.

WAYFINDER TRAINING A full-day immersive programme that embeds the framework into your team. Real-world scenarios, category simulations, role-plays - designed to stimulate and embed learning.

WAYFINDER ADVISORY For organisations that want to go further. We co-design the implementation roadmap, stress-test it against operational reality, and support delivery. Priced on a case-by-case basis.

WAYFINDER ONLINE An interactive resource hub featuring training materials, tools and intelligence to support day-to-day delivery. Available as a standalone subscription, best paired with the training programme.

NEED2KNOW Our proprietary platform that gives category managers trust-worthy AI-powered sustainability intelligence exactly when they need it most.