By sharing common goals and having a strong business relationship with our suppliers, our success is also the success of our suppliers. By continuously improving processes and systems our goal is to sustain excellence in quality, delivery, cost-efficiency, lead-time, solutions, and innovation. At Wärtsilä, we are dedicated to maintaining the highest standards in quality and innovation, ensuring that our products and services meet the evolving needs of our customers.
We expect both ourselves and our supplier network to consistently strive for excellence by continuously enhancing our performance and refining our processes. We need to continually assess and gauge the performance and efficiency of our processes, always looking for ways to improve, such as benchmarking. It is essential for us and our suppliers to innovate in sustainable technology and services to help our customers consistently enhance their environmental and economic outcomes. We are committed to supporting our suppliers in adopting sustainable practices, ensuring that our supply chain contributes positively to environmental and economic outcomes.
Close teamwork with our 28,000 suppliers builds relations based on strong trust, sharing of information, and help ensure competitive lead times for products and services. In addition, collaboration with key suppliers, universities and research institutes, part of our research and development activities, help us form strategic partnerships and develop new and existing solutions.
If you are already part of our supplier network, we look forward to striving for excellence together and welcome you to challenge us. If you're not yet a member and want to take on the challenge, please apply to join us as a supplier. Visit the Supplier requirements page to learn more about the application process and requirements.
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We create value for Wärtsilä's customers through our supplier base by ensuring supply with the right quality, delivered on time with the lowest total cost and fulfilling customer’s lead time requirement.
We build excellent long-term relations with our key suppliers, create strong commitment to become the preferred customer. We select the right suppliers by benchmarking and sourcing globally. We optimize and innovate the supply chain and invite our suppliers early in our development processes. We develop our people and our organization to reach world class performance.
To secure coordinated interfaces and synergies for the cross-divisional supplier base, Wärtsilä has a category management structure in place.
The main direct material products and components are divided into 19 different categories, based on cross-functional category teams. The direct material categories are divided under Wärtsilä Businesses based on the major volume distribution of the materials and components of each category. The categories are managed by a category team, headed by a Category Manager with his / her Strategic Purchasers and Supplier Development Engineers. The teams are cross-functionally linked to stakeholders from research & development, technology, product engineering as well as relevant representatives of the different businesses.
The Indirect Purchasing activities are divided into 10 categories and is managing the strategic sourcing activities for indirect materials and services in all businesses and support functions.
Centralised forum for supply management with representatives from all Businesses is accountable for supervising the way of working and have the needed cross-divisions governance.