Source of value creation and competitive advantages, Purchasing contributes through its supplier policy, to optimizing the company's performance and supporting its sales growth.
With external expenses over 50% of total revenue, Purchasing is intimately linked with the company's business activities, and incorporates its sustainable development commitments.
Purchasing's organization is based on the complementary nature of approaches specific to each business and cross-divisional approaches. The former ensure a maximum degree of contact with the operational entities, while the latter ensure maximum leverage from the company's purchasing power.
To optimize exchanges and responsiveness, Veolia Environnement's Purchasing function has adopted a network structure. Lead buyers are appointed per purchasing category and for a given geographic area to steer the purchasing approach and implement a working group that is representative of the departments and entities concerned.
