Suppliers
Sustainable, innovative global supply chains in Life Sciences & Materials Sciences are vital as we strive to reach our strategic ambitions and realize our brand promise. The need for long-lasting and meaningful relationships with key suppliers is becoming more important every day – for sustainability, for innovation, and for effective risk management. Our Purchasing organization’s mission is therefore to connect customer needs with supplier solutions. By doing this, we extend the value chain to our suppliers, so that they truly contribute to value creation and support our competitiveness in areas such as:
- Sustainability
- Innovation
- Business growth, especially in the High Growth Economies
- Security and quality of supply
- New business models and strategic alliances
- Cash management and cost control
Sustainability and business conduct
Our core value of sustainability implies responsibility. We therefore include all suppliers, contractors and agents in our efforts to achieve better environmental quality and social responsibility – moving outwards from our own company into our value chains. Our commitment to the triple bottom line of People, Planet and Profit guides us in all of our purchasing decisions. It also forms the basis of our Supplier Code of Conduct, which defines how we choose to do business and interact with our suppliers.
Supplier management
Our selection criteria for suppliers include, but are not limited to, the following capabilities:
- Business commitment: their level of strategic alignment, resource allocation, innovation and commitment to price and cost reduction
- Security of supply: whether they deliver on time and have put supply assurance systems in place
- Sustainability: whether they comply with a code of conduct, and contribute to sustainable solutions for the value chain
- Quality assurance: whether they conduct quality performance for products, services and documentation, and what their response is to non-performance
We work with our suppliers to continuously improve our relationship and performance by:
- Managing key supplier relationships to better utilize the true capabilities of our most important suppliers
- Using our supplier development program to develop the supplier’s true strategic capability
- Conducting regular supplier performance evaluations
- Expecting suppliers to conduct their activities in accordance with our Supplier Code of Conduct and purchase conditions
About Purchasing
Purchasing is a globally-operating functional group that consists of a central DSM Sourcing unit and Business Group Purchasing departments, under the leadership of the Chief Purchasing Officer.
We distinguish two spend areas:
- Chemicals & Utilities, which are the majority of the necessary building blocks for the vast range of DSM products
- Indirect Goods & Services, which cover the most diverse range of purchasing needs for DSM that are not directly processed in our products (Facility Goods & Services, ICT, Physical Distribution, Technical Goods & Services)
The Purchasing organization’s mission is to connect customer needs with supplier solutions. With in-depth knowledge of supply markets and close collaboration with our businesses and suppliers, our Purchasing professionals bring supplier capabilities to DSM in an efficient and transparent way. We ensure the best value by balancing quality of supply, price and risk management (Total Cost of Ownership), and we actively contribute to differentiated business strategies and goals for sustainability, innovation and ‘asset lite’ (capital efficiency).
Our matrix organization aims for world-wide collaboration between all Purchasing employees fully integrated in our businesses. We emphasize a professional, collaborative, challenging and trustworthy approach, which creates competitive advantages by getting the most possible value from our supplier relationships.
Supplier Code of Conduct and Purchase Conditions
- DSM Supplier Code of Conduct:
English (PDF, 264.95KB) | Chinese (PDF, 448.03KB) | Dutch (PDF, 266.40KB) | German (PDF, 277.85KB) - DSM General Purchase Conditions 2010:
English (PDF, 30.29KB) | Dutch (PDF, 31.59KB) | German (PDF, 40.26KB) - DSM USA General Purchase Conditions 2010:
English (PDF, 28.66KB) - DSM China General Purchase Conditions 2010:
English (PDF, 31.22KB) | Chinese (PDF, 115.18KB) - DSM General Purchase Conditions 2007 (for reference only):
Goods (PDF, 43.67KB) | Services (PDF, 42.50KB)
