Supply Chain

Our policy is to:
  • Assess all potential suppliers against an ethical and environmental questionnaire prior to being added to our supplier lists.
  • Communicate and treat our suppliers/customers with fairness and courtesy as dictated by our internal values.
  • Work with all of our customers and suppliers regarding environmental initiatives, encouraging them to help us to jointly reduce the environment impact of our work.
  • Work in partnership with our suppliers to enhance the quality and performance of the items they supply.
  • Work in partnership with our customers to develop and improve both e2v’s products and the systems in which our products are incorporated.


Highlights

  • We have introduced a global procurement function with responsibility for all procurement processes across the Group. This new team has re-defined functions for commodity management and supply chain disciplines, ensuring we now have dedicated focus with appropriate skills.
  • 2008 saw e2v signing our longest ever duration contract, a 17 year project with a US defence contractor for a US DoD project; a demonstration of the partnership approach taken with all key customers.

 

At e2v we strive to build long term partnership based relationships with our customers and suppliers, ensuring that every step of our supply chain contributes positively to the quality, safety, and availability of our products and services whilst supporting ethical and environmentally sensitive business practices.
This partnership approach is demonstrated by the fact that 15 of our current top 25 customers had been with the Group for over 10 years. We have reviewed our customer satisfaction survey procedures. This resulted in a new approach which will be launched and target 80% of customers by revenue.
The new global procurement team has already started the work required to maximise the consolidation of spend through chosen strategic suppliers by the introduction of a supplier accreditation scheme, formal negotiation processes including global spend aggregation, savings roadmap, and commodity specific strategies.