"responsible procurement" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the practice of obtaining goods and services in an ethical and sustainable way. For example: "Our company is committed to responsible procurement, with a particular focus on sustainability."
Strategic Living Our Values priorities: responsible procurement, doing good business, and low-impact operations Departments covered: finance, operations – workplace management.
Whether it is legislation, a mass of employees driving change internally, or significant PR and risk-management that initiates more responsible procurement, large-scale impact could be created.
Large construction firms must work with suppliers and bring them up to speed on the responsible procurement, recycling and reuse of building materials.
In Norway, the national pension fund requires ethical screening of its investments, its export credit agency imposes human rights requirements on borrowers, and the government has recently released "A Guide to Human Rights Due Diligence in Global Supply Chains," as part of efforts to develop a government-wide approach to socially responsible procurement.
"Certification & World Forestry" is the fourth Certification Watch Conference and will build on a tradition of high profile strategic events organized by Certification Watch and will examine the status, trends and challenges related to the development of forest certification and responsible procurement throughout the world.
Take inspiration from Electronics Watch, which pushes socially responsible public procurement of IT equipment.
The company has hired forestry specialists who work with suppliers on educating them about more responsible wood procurement practices.
Agencies responsible for procurement, credit, tax, labor, tariff, antitrust, and trade policy jealously guard their bureaucratic territories.
As administrator, he kept the accounts, hired and fired the workers, and was responsible for procurement of materials.
Yet the production entities are collectively responsible for procurement, manufacturing and distribution activities associated with one or more families of related products.
Lord Paull) Drayson, the British defence minister responsible for procurement, signed an agreement with the Pentagon on December 12th to go ahead with the JSF's production phase, saying he had received "the necessary assurances from the US on technology transfer", although he did not spell these out.The news will come as a relief to all involved.
