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Indirect Procurement

From filter to company car, wheel loader to airline ticket, sulfuric acid to ethanol: Umicore Purchasing & Transportation department (P&T) procures more than €500 million worth of products and services for the Umicore group every year. Our indirect procurement activities include sourcing nearly everything that keeps the production operations in the Umicore sites and offices up and running: from technical goods and services over facilities and maintenance, shut down related support both in operational expenses as well as in the context of investments. We tackle it all in close collaboration with our internal stakeholders, who we consider our business partners.

For information on direct procurement: see the websites of the business units within the Umicore group.

Procurement Organization

For a differentiated response to specific stakeholder & market requirements, the Umicore Indirect procurement organization is divided into:

• Category Procurement Centers (CPC) focusing on global categories as well as on specific “knowledge or competency driven” categories such as IS/IT, Chemicals, Energy
• Regional Procurement Centers (RPC) delivering customer intimacy on-site as well as regional sourcing and procuring in categories with regional /national scope

The categories in scope of our organization are:

• Industrial Equipment
• Industrial Services
• Maintenance, Repair, Operations & Spare parts
• Consumables incl chemicals
• Energy
• Environment, Health & Safety
• Analytical Lab and R&D including lab chemicals- IS / IT / BIT- Facility services

Suppliers

We collaborate in a professional way with competitive suppliers who add value for Umicore and our customers and who want to join Umicore along the path of sustainable growth.

The Purchasing Team has the mission of leading this process with an exemplarity:

• The respect of the integrity of the bidding process
• The respect of the rule of “free competition”
• The fair treatment of suppliers
• The implementation of clear agreements

At Umicore we highly value Safety commitment and leadership. We take care of the safety and working conditions of our employees and wish to partner up only with suppliers who show the same engagement, making no concessions in this area. As such, Umicore reserves the right to terminate, without notice, its relationship with a supplier not complying with these values. 

SAP Ariba Supplier Portal 

At Umicore we are committed to create sustainable value in an innovative way for our customers, society and other stakeholders. Therefore, we encourage our suppliers to work with us in a digital way on the SAP Ariba platform so that we can enhance this sustainable value creation.

Go to our SAP Ariba Supplier page

Sustainable sourcing

For general information on sustainable sourcing at Umicore, we invite you to visit our sustainable sourcing webpage.

Umicore applies for its indirect procurement a risk mitigation or supplier qualification model in the selection of its suppliers, which may consist of: 

• Adherence to the Umicore Global Sustainable Sourcing Policy; this policy contains a core set of principles we expect our suppliers adhere to, when conducting business with Umicore.
• A Corporate Social Responsability assessment, that gives insights of your compliancy to our policy
• A financial viability scan

Please find below downloads to our Umicore Global Sustainable Sourcing Policy: