Nowy Styl Sustainability Report 2018-2019

we care for quality and optimisation along Nowy Styl’s entire supply chain. Nowy Styl is using 106,786 m 2 of warehouse space in Poland, Germany, France, Switzerland, UK, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and Hungary. In Poland, finished products and large components for export are stored in external warehous- es in Pilzno and Rzeszów. We also have our own material warehouses by all the four factories in Jasło, with a com- bined floor area of 32,194 m 2 . With those locations, we are able to store raw materials worth three months of stable production. between workers, regular training, transparent pay policy and, above all, tidiness and safety. Each of these elements is covered in lean manage- ment – a concept of production process management which helps to ensure that work on the factory floor is carried out according to strict standards, guaranteeing the right quality and efficiency. For easier control of expenditures throughout the Group, we have centralised the procurement process. We ben- efit from the synergy effect, as our whole organisation falls under a single purchasing strategy . We set identical terms for all of our locations. Cooperation is made easier thanks to solutions on IT platforms in the area of purchas- ing processes such as: IFS management system, Office 365 communication tool and reporting systems for purchasing parameters and consolidation of purchasing data for all Nowy Styl companies. Our specialists control and analyse logistics parame- ters on an ongoing basis. As a result, we can be sure that GRI 103-2 We have implemented uniform standards across the organisation and we work in line with the re- quirements of ISO 9001:2015. In addition to the quality of rawmaterials and consuma- bles, product quality is largely determined by conditions in the working environment, e.g. understanding of processes taking place in the process hall, good flow of information Production autonomy is one of Nowy Styl’s strengths. We have our own factories with a floor area of 220,000 m 2 lo- cated in 7 European countries. Our production is based on modern production and IT technology. We have our own tool shop and multifunctional machinery for the overall pro- cessing of wood, metals and plastics. We also have our own R&D Centre and we invest in fourth-generation industrial solutions, to better meet customer needs by manufactur- ing in a way that is efficient, environmentally friendly and perfectly tailored to customers’ preferences. Nowy Styl has been using lean tools in all of the com- pany’s factories for over a dozen years. Their implemen- tation and compliance is supervised by an international team of experts, who have developed their own operating model tailored to our needs and aimed at boosting syner- gies in production. Lean also allows us to quickly respond to a changing market situation. For example, we are currently seeing a large fragmentation of production. This is not a problem for us, as we are able to retool quickly and start working on a contract without delaying delivery. Procurement Quality control Production 86 Table of contents