Sustainability

The approval process and the assessment of suppliers’ performance are some of the key aspects necessary to guarantee the ethical management of the purchasing process, as it is ERG’s firm belief that being responsible is not only limited to actions within the company.

This is why we pay particular attention to the assessment of our vendors and, in 2010, we revised our selection and assessment procedures to make them even more efficient.

“Vendor management” is an advanced procedure for efficiently handling and supervising information on the Group’s current and potential vendors.

The procedure consists of a totally transparent and traceable management of the vendor selection and contract awarding processes, in line with the Group’s Ethics Code, constant updating of the information about its group of vendors and a significant reduction in management times.
The assessment criteria are strict and based on the Ethics Code and every vendor is obliged to share and respect the Group’s policies above all with regard to Health, Safety and the Environment.

The new Vendor Management Platform

In 2010, the Vendor management platform that manages qualification and performance was revised. The previous version included various information systems with different accesses for vendors and ERG users. The new release uses the I-Faber platform and concentrates all the functions necessary to manage the group of vendors (preliminary and performance assessment) in a single information container.