Dr. Heike Schulze
Consulting

Dr. Heike Schulze
Consulting

Designing sustainable purchasing organisations and supply chains

Main focus

Effective implementation of recognized ecological and social standards through practical, compliant, and tailor-made sustainability solutions for your organization.

Services

Designing organisational structures, processes and tools, aligned with your specific requirements and challenges. Building sustainability competencies within your organisation through hands-on training formats.

Your benefit

My extensive project experience across industries, strong subject-matter expertise, and solutions that are compliant, practical, and effective.

Approach

  • Customer perspective: Focus on customer specific situation and benefit
  • Practical implementation: Integration in processes and systems
  • Knowledge-based: Subject matter expertise and practical know-how
  • Collaborative: Network of partners from practice and research

Core areas

Initial assessment

  • Initial assessment
  • Target definition
  • Key figures

Measures

  • Recommendation on processes, guidelines, standards, tools

Implementation

  • Facilitation of implementation processes
  • Competence profiles
  • Roles & responsibilities

Customer Requests

  • Processes
  • Standards
  • Data

Sustainability Training

Design and implementation of sustainability trainings for purchasing professionals.

Training content

  • Sustainability basics, standards, tools
  • Challenges and opportunities for purchasing and supply management
  • Implementation of sustainability in the day-to-day work of purchasing professionals

Target Groups

  • Purchasing professionals that have to deal with sustainability in their daily job

Format

  • Interactive and case-based
  • Includes findings from research and academia
  • Conducted in English or German

Workshops & Presentations

Topics

  • Sustainability trends and challenges
  • Social Standards and Business Ethics within supply chains: Need for action and management tools
  • Opportunities and risks
  • Implementation within organizations

Target Groups

  • Executives and experts within associations, committees and institutions
  • Company representatives

Format

  • Customized presentations or workshops
  • Conducted in English or German

Profile

Experienced consultant

  • Advising companies and institutions in Germany and internationally since 2013

Manager in the corporate practice

  • Over 15 years of experience through management positions and by leading projects in the areas of sustainability, purchasing, human resources, communication

Sound subject matter expertise through research & teaching

  • Dissertation on sustainability competences in purchasing, research project on future competences for procurement, interim professor, lecturer