Purchases

Hutchinson Corporate Purshasing

Corporate Purshasing's main mission is to:
  - Reinforce Hutchinson’s competitiveness by optimizing and coordinating purchasing through its Operational Activities
  - Foster awareness of the purchasing function throughout Hutchinson worldwide.

Its organization is based on three main purchasing sectors:
  - Chemistry: centralized purchasing for ingredients of mixtures
  - Metal / Plastic: decentralized purchasing coordinated among activities
  - Goods & Services: centralized purchasing for referenced suppliers within the Group Agreements or decentralized but coordinated among Activities

Each operational Business Unit has its own Purshasing Organisation reporting :
  - Hierarchically to the Business Unit Department for meeting purchasing goals for the Business Unit
  - Functionally to Hutchinson Corporate Purchasing Management for deploying the actions and reaching the goals of the Group $AV€ Plan.

The $AV€ Purchasing Plan

The goals of the strategic $AV€ Purchasing Plan for the period 2005-2007 are to:
  - Reduce purchasing costs
  - Optimize supplier panels by including countries with competitive costs
  - Develop electronic purchasing tools for sourcing and procurement

In order to reach these goals, the $AV€ plan defines the means for reinforcing both the maturity and professionalism of the central organizations and by activity.

Links: 

-Purchasing Fundamental Business Principles
- Hutchinson General Purchasing Conditions
- Hutchinson General Purchasing Conditions - Works & services
- TOTAL Ethics Charter
- TOTAL Safety Health Environment Quality Charter 

- Extract of the code of conduct (Total)