Nowy Styl Sustainability Report 2018-2019

GRI 103-2 GRI 102-9 For any company, supply chain manage- ment is one of the most difficult areas of business. The longer it is, the more potential reasons for it to break. A supply chain is about more than just supplying materials for production. It is also about organisation, stor- age, production planning, technological process, internal transport and shipping logistics. Negotiations with suppliers are our daily routine, and the IT tools we use every day help us to efficiently communicate and coordinate our work with colleagues from France, Germany and Switzerland. Bogdan Hawrot Manager of Indirect Procurement Nowy Styl 5.3 Nowy Styl’s supply chain ing individual categories from the existing structure and assigning them responsibility not only for carrying out tasks assigned to them, but most importantly for creative approach to working on purchasing strategies for each of them individually. The appointment of independent man- agers for the different categories has had an important effect: in addition to becoming team leaders, those indi- viduals have brought expertise and experience from their industries into the organisation. Category managers are responsible for a global approach to the purchasing pro- cess in each of the departments. The purchasing of raw materials is a complex process that includes the selection of new suppliers, auditing and co- operation risk assessment, searching for newmaterial and product solutions to meet customers’ requirements, opti- misation of purchasing, quality and logistical parameters, analysis of purchasing indicators and the process of com- plaints and supplier development. At Nowy Styl, this element of the supply chain is the re- sponsibility of the Strategic Purchasing Department, based in the company’s head office in Poland. Details of cooper- ation with our company are described in Nowy Styl Pro- curement Policy , the foundation of which was prepared in the last two years. In the period covered by this report, ongoing analysis of and real-time response to all the var- iables became a new challenge coming from the market. To meet it, we introduced essential changes by separat- Purchasing of raw materials Click and see Nowy Styl Procurement Policy Purchase of raw materials Quality control Logistics Procurement Production Additional services 85