Boston Consulting Group has launched a training academy focused on equipping companies’ procurement teams and suppliers with new sustainability skills.

Participants will learn methods of reducing their companies’ Scope 3 carbon emissions, the emissions generated indirectly by a firm’s business activities. That includes the CO2 that a firm’s suppliers emit when they manufacture the merchandise it orders.

BCG’s training academy offers a mix of self-service training materials and instructor-led courses. Clients can commission BCG to customize the courses for their employees or, if they so choose, develop entirely new training modules.

There’s depth to the curriculum of BCG’s training academy. In addition to high-level courses explaining core concepts, the firm is offering detailed training modules focused on the more fine-grained aspects of sustainability initiatives.

Procurement executives can learn skills such as incentivizing suppliers to fast-track their net zero programs. Procurement strategy teams, which tend to play a particularly central role in green supply chain initiatives, have access to sustainability upskilling modules.

BCG has also crafted learning materials for suppliers.  The firm’s consultants will instruct participants in how to measure their firms’ carbon footprints, communicate results to shareholders and create a roadmap to net zero emissions.

“The Supply Chain Net Zero Academy by BCG offers a full suite of training, from foundational learning on the sources of emissions to deep engagement with experts on how suppliers can apply abatement levers in the supply chain,” remarked BCG managing director and partner Elfrun von Koeller.

BCG’s top competitors are also rolling out new sustainability offerings to support clients’ net zero roadmaps. One BCG rival, Bain & Co, not long ago started working with Schneider Electric to jointly advise firms on how they can reduce their carbon emissions. 

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