Pirelli honours its nine best suppliers of 2012

With Pirelli Group spending around 4 billion euro acquiring goods and services in 2012, you can understand why the company wants to honour its best suppliers. That’s why Pirelli today gave out its Supplier Award 2013, in recognition of the suppliers who have “contributed in a significant way to Pirelli’s Premium strategy throughout the world.”

This year’s edition of the Supplier Award was given to 9 international companies – of which five were from the Asia-Pacific region – chosen by Pirelli on the basis of seven criteria: sustainability, quality, level of service, speed, innovation, as well as cost and global presence. According to the tyre manufacturer, the “quality” of the companies which supply goods and services is an essential factor in the pursuit of Pirelli’s premium strategy.

At present there are about 12,000 companies around the world that work with Pirelli, they are managed by 135 purchasing specialists and chosen on the basis of parameters indicated by Pirelli in the areas of safety, capacity for innovation, quality of materials, sustainability, level of risk, and efficiency of supply chain, with an analysis that does not only look at them directly, but also at the suppliers of the suppliers, through a self-appraisement by the contractor.

“The companies which won the award are those seen as being above the level of mere conformity, transforming themselves into true partners in quality and innovation,” said Luigi Staccoli, Pirelli’s Chief Purchasing Officer, “and so also achieving a competitive advantage on international markets”.