Afternoon Coffee: Ivalua boosts ESG effort, joins UN’s sustainability compact; Amazon Business sets dates for virtual procurement events for US, EU, Japan; e-commerce firm Gooten raises $15 million, changes leadership

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Afternoon Coffee: Ivalua boosts ESG effort, joins UN’s sustainability compact; Amazon Business sets dates for virtual procurement events for US, EU, Japan; e-commerce firm Gooten raises $15 million, changes leadership

The source-to-pay suite provider Ivalua has joined the United Nations’ Global Compact to further the company’s ESG efforts and support the UN’s initiative on corporate sustainability goals.

“The way consumers, businesses and public institutions spend significantly impacts the sustainability and social agenda of supply chains globally,” Ivalua said in a press release. “By digitally transforming spend management, Ivalua’s platform empowers customers to manage their supply chain more efficiently, sustainably and responsibly to deliver better environmental and social outcomes.”

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Ivalua Founder and CEO David Khuat-Duy said Ivalua has pledged to internally have a positive social and economic impact — and also will help customers do the same with Ivalua’s solution.

“As we strengthen our global sustainability platform, Ivalua’s most impactful contribution will emerge from the successful implementation of our spend management solutions with some

Amazon Small business Exchange 2021: Highlights on sustainability

Last week we attended the third yearly Amazon Enterprise Trade (ABX) occasion alongside extra than 1,500 procurement leaders from all dimensions of non-public and general public sector corporations across Europe. It was a further very well-attended and effectively-executed accomplishment for Amazon Business enterprise and a terrific prospect to discover from Amazon Enterprise prospects, senior procurement leaders and market experts about their successes in driving procurement effectiveness price savings through streamlining their daily getting processes.

A managing concept for the working day was how procurement can drive digitalization, have a strategic impact on the group, and bolster its sustainability endeavours and ambitions.

In the opening keynote, we listened to from Nabil De Marco, Director of Europe at Amazon Company. He talked about the evolving acquiring landscape and gave some insight into how Amazon Organization has grown to accommodate this evolution, focusing on what it has realized