Purchase organization
The External Supply Committee (ESC)
- Chaired by the purchasing department and bringing together quality, logistics, production, technical and commercial managers + site manager
- Frequency: once a month
- Objective: to review internal and external quality and logistics incidents over the past month and to decide on the action plans to be undertaken
- Quality review : Pareto defects
- Balance sheet
- Service and logistics performance
- Audit Schedule
- Other matters on general purchasing policy
Purchasing Clubs
- Once a year : 2 or 3 days
- Synergy between all buyers + Synergy between central and local
- One theme per club (quality – Lean – Best practice …)
- Strengthen ties
- Share experiences
- Deploy the central purchasing process on the plants
- Creating a spirit of group and emulation

The Group Supplier Panel
- List of all suppliers per family, per site + European mapping
- Turnover achieved with Suppliers (N and N-1)
- Monitoring of ISO certifications and monitoring the financial health of suppliers
- Penetration rate [DEFTA / Supplier] and [Supplier / DEFTA]
- Audit and supplier scoring sheet in all languages
Supplier benefits
- Payments on time.
- The volume effect DEFTA
- Accompanying DCI and OEM standards
THINK GLOBAL ! ACT GLOBAL