The purchasing needs of Endesa mean we have to have a large number of suppliers of products and services. We must have full and up-to-date information on these suppliers, which must be easily accessible to our purchasing agents, so that locating the most suitable “Approved Suppliers” for each tender is as efficient as possible.
The qualification process for suppliers includes the following stages:
- Selection of suppliers which may be of interest to Endesa based on criteria defined by the business area.
- “Registration of the Supplier” in the “Suppliers database”; the supplier states the products and services that it could supply to the Endesa Group in this register.
- Subsequent analysis of this data, which may be supplemented by an audit visit to the supplier’s premises.
- Finally, a “Qualification report” is prepared, which determines the suitability of the supplier for the Endesa Group.
Endesa's objective is that all our “Product and Services Suppliers” should, in the very near future, be included on this register. In accordance with our procedures, suppliers must be suitably qualified to take part in our tenders; as a result, not being on this register means that the supplier will not be selected.
