Henkel Adhesive Technologies has awarded performance of its partners with the Supplier Awards. The companies, such as Eastman, BYK and Evonik have been awarded this year in the categories of operational excellence, innovation and sustainability. The award recognizes and honors the business unit’s close and successful collaborations.
Importance of Supplier Performance and Partnerships
The collaboration between the company and its suppliers is an important factor the business. The performance of the suppliers drives the company towards drive powerful innovations and helps in creating new business opportunities. Such strong and trustful partnerships are essential to develop innovative solutions for the customers and further gain competitive advantages in the diverse markets.
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The close cooperation and open exchange with our strategic suppliers throughout the entire value chain enable us to translate the needs and expectations of our customers into tailor-made and meaningful solutions” said Thomas Holenia, Corporate Vice President Purchasing at Henkel. “
By aligning our strategic priorities and supply chains we increase agility and quality and achieve excellence in supply performance, innovation and sustainability. This is even more important in today’s challenging market environment across the globe.”
Eastman - Operational Excellence Award
Henkel has presented the Operational Excellence Award to Eastman for its supply performance over several consecutive years and its efforts to ensure the competitiveness in the challenging market environment.
Eastman has delivered an excellent service level degree with best in class on-time and in-full scores. In addition, the company demonstrated its commitment to top tier quality standards as well as a strong cooperation among the supply chain teams of Henkel and Eastman, a first-class delivery performance along with an exceptional view on chemical feedstocks.
BYK - Innovation Award
Henkel has granted the Innovation Award to BYK for its additives which are performance critical ingredients in a variety of formulations across adhesives, sealants and construction chemicals. The collaboration was based on open exchange and an early access to innovations which resulted in BYK’s growing contribution to numerous innovation projects and successful product launches of the Adhesive Technologies business unit.
BYK was recognized for its strong customer-orientation and excellent technical customer service. Customer-centricity has been also proven by digital training and information sharing via exclusive tools and channels that helped to increase the interconnectivity of BYK with Henkel´s global R&D community.
EVONIK - Sustainability Award
Henkel has presented the Sustainability Award to EVONIK for its achievements to develop innovative product solutions while reducing the environmental impact. In 2019, the company demonstrated excellent support on Henkel’s sustainability targets and showed the best contribution to Henkel’s sustainability objectives.
The strong partnership between both companies was characterized by an open exchange and access with focus on sustainable innovations. The strong collaboration resulted in a solution-based project portfolio including bio-based materials, improvements for a circular economy, replacements of substances of very high concern (SHVC) and transparency on CO2 footprint data.
Source: Henkel