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In times of unprecedented supply chain disruption, daunting sustainability challenges, and rapidly changing consumer demands, procurement is tasked with navigating an increasingly complex business landscape to deliver on key business goals. To do so, they must pursue mutually-beneficial “customer of choice” status with key suppliers through effective Supplier Collaboration and Innovation (SC&I).

Yet despite the many benefits that SC&I can bring to enterprise businesses, procurement functions at enterprise organisations frequently struggle to work collaboratively with supplier stakeholders due to the scale and complexity of their relationships.

Luckily, Vizibl and Gartner are here to help.

Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2020, Vizibl is delighted to offer complimentary access to Gartner research on procurement, sourcing, supply chain, and sustainability. To aid you on your Supplier Collaboration and Innovation journey, we specifically select reports that will guide you in more effectively leveraging your organisation’s supplier relationships, allowing you to achieve more strategic and more sustainable procurement practices.

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Reduce Scope 3 Carbon Emissions in the Value Chain With Supplier-Led Innovation

In this report, "Reduce Scope 3 Carbon Emissions in the Value Chain With Supplier-Led Innovation", Gartner analysts Miguel Cossio, Laura Rainier, & Lindsay Azim outline steps that "will help CPOs better utilize supplier-led innovation to solve critical challenges that inhibit progress on emissions reduction goals."

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Source: Gartner, "Reduce Scope 3 Carbon Emissions in the Value Chain With Supplier-Led Innovation", by Miguel Cossio, Laura Rainier, & Lindsay Azim. Published 31 August 2022.

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Quick Answer: 3 Steps to Partner with Strategic Suppliers While Navigating Disruption

In this Gartner report, analysts Miguel Cossio & Andrea Greenwald discuss how procurement can utilise supplier collaboration & engagement to manage strategic supplier relationships, and the behaviours and actions that underpin 'customer of choice' relationships, alongside the competitive advantage this brings to the organisations that win this coveted status.

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Source: Gartner, "Quick Answer: 3 Steps to Partner With Strategic Suppliers While Navigating Disruption", by Miguel Cossio & Andrea Greenwald. Published 2 March 2023.

Sustainable Profit: Evolving the Value Proposition of Procurement

In this report, ‘Sustainable Profit: Evolving the Value Proposition of Procurement’, Gartner analyst Ryan Polk discussed how sustainable profit must become procurement's orienting principle, highlighting that "Chief procurement officers must upgrade their operating model in terms of governance, capabilities, value streams and resources to deliver value in the future”.

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Source: Gartner, "Sustainable Profit: Evolving the Value Proposition of Procurement", by Ryan Polk. Published 25 February 2022. ‍ DISCLAIMER: GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

How to Evaluate Supplier Sustainability

In the latest complimentary report, "How to Evaluate Supplier Sustainability", Gartner analysts Miguel Cossio & Lindsay Azim outline and discuss practical steps that will help Chief Procurement Officers "evaluate the sustainability performance of their suppliers as they continue to drive their organisation’s sustainable procurement strategy."

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Source: Gartner, "How to Evaluate Supplier Sustainability", by Miguel Cossio & Lindsay Azim. Published 3 October 2022. ‍DISCLAIMER: GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

‘3 Steps for Effective Supplier Engagement in Sustainability’

In this report, "3 Steps for Effective Supplier Engagement in Sustainability", Gartner analyst Miguel Cossio "outlines the three critical steps procurement leaders must take as they seek to effectively engage their suppliers for sustainability".

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Source: Gartner, "3 Steps for Effective Supplier Engagement in Sustainability", Miguel Cossio, 16 August 2022.

‘3 Steps to Accelerate Scope 3 Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals in the Value Chain’

In this report, "3 Steps to Accelerate Scope 3 Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals in the Value Chain", Gartner analysts identify and discuss three steps that procurement can take in order to reduce their scope 3 emissions: determine a baseline, prioritise levers of impact, and craft a decarbonisation roadmap.

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Source: Gartner, "3 Steps to Accelerate Scope 3 Emissions Reduction Goals in the Value Chain", Lindsay Azim & Laura Rainier, 5 July 2022.

‘Quick Answer: How Can Technology Be Used to Support a Sustainable Procurement Program?’

In this report, "Quick Answer: How Can Technology Be Used to Support a Sustainable Procurement Program?", Gartner analysts discuss how procurement leaders "will need to use technology solutions to help them deliver results" on their sustainable procurement goals.

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Source: "Quick Answer: How Can Technology Be Used to Support a Sustainable Procurement Program?", Miguel Cossio & Laura Rainier, 30 May 2022.

‘Leading Sustainability Ambition, Goals and Technology in the 2020s’

In this report, "Leading Sustainability Ambition, Goals and Technology in the 2020s", Gartner defines three overarching steps which businesses need to take in order to successfully realise their sustainability ambitions in the 2020s: set a strategic ambition for sustainability, align goals with ambition, and unleash ecosystems with technology.

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Source: Gartner, "Leading Sustainability Ambition, Goals and Technology in the 2020's", Kristin Moyer, Simon Mingay, & Sarah Watt, 27 April 2021

‘The Journey to Effective Supplier Collaboration: Step 4 — Governance and Scaling’

In this research, Gartner defines three steps which businesses need to take in order to successfully govern and scale their supplier collaboration strategies: establish QBRs with strategic suppliers to enable collaboration toward strategic goals, avoid shortsighted tactics, and deploy a combination of engagement mechanisms to drive collaboration.

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Source: Gartner, The Journey to Effective Supplier Collaboration: Step 4 Governance and Scaling, By Miguel Cossio, Sam New, Published 2 February 2021.

‘The Journey to Effective Supplier Collaboration: Step 3 — Strategy Launch’

In this instalment, Gartner details the third step of their overarching supplier collaboration framework, taking a deeper dive into these four steps on how to successfully launch your strategic supplier collaboration strategy: define the internal changes that your organisation is willing to make, meet with the account leadership team of your strategic suppliers, officially kick off the supplier collaboration strategy by meeting with executive leadership teams, and run a pilot with one or two strategic supplier to test the launch process.

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Source: Gartner, The Journey to Effective Supplier Collaboration: Step 3 Strategy Launch, By Miguel Cossio, Published 2 February 2021

‘The Journey to Effective Supplier Collaboration: Step 2 — Internal Stakeholder Alignment’

In this report, Gartner analysts detail the second step of their overarching supplier collaboration framework, taking a deeper dive into how to successfully implement an effective Supplier Collaboration Strategy.

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Source: Gartner, The Journey to Effective Supplier Collaboration: Step - Internal Stakeholder Alignment, By Miguel Cossio, Sam New, Published 2 February 2021

‘The Journey to Effective Supplier Collaboration: Step 1 — Strategy Design’

In this research, Gartner defines three overarching steps which businesses need to take in order to create a successful supplier collaboration strategy: define the objective for increased supplier collaboration, identify internal stakeholders to engage early in your supplier collaboration strategy, & kick-start the supplier segmentation process to prioritise engagement.

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Source: Gartner, The Journey to Effective Supplier Collaboration: Step 1 - Strategy Design, By Miguel Cossio, Sam New, Published 2 February 2021.

‘Follow Gartner's 4-Step Framework to Implement an Effective Supplier Collaboration Strategy’

In our first instalment of Gartner research, analysts give an overarching review of a supplier collaboration framework, and discuss the four steps necessary to take to implement an effective Supplier Collaboration Strategy: strategy scope definition, stakeholder alignment and team structure definition, strategic supplier onboarding, and strategy execution and scaling.

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Source: Gartner, Follow Gartner’s 4-Step Framework to Implement an Effective Supplier Collaboration Strategy, By Miguel Cossio, Sam New, Published 2 February 2021

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