SUPPLIERS
Purchasing projects are part of the SOCOMORE Group strategy and ensure that our suppliers are qualified, and the products/services they supply are qualified and available at the best cost, lead-time, quality standards, terms and conditions in order to support the SOCOMORE Group’s operations and innovation.
Formulator of Specialty Chemicals for 50 years, SOCOMORE ensures and develops its activity thanks to a long term partnership with its suppliers in a perennial relationship rich in co-constructed solutions. This partnership is essential for the sustainability of SOCOMORE's offer to its customers.
The objective of our Purchasing policy is to guarantee the availability of products and services according to the technical requirements of our customers' specifications, while regularly increasing the positive impacts in terms of social and environmental responsibility and contributing to the economic sustainability of our activity.
SOCOMORE pursues its will to be a positive and reliable actor in its purchasing practices, in order to offer its customers sustainable, innovative and user/planet friendly solutions. SOCOMORE ensures a long-lasting, balanced, and ethical collaboration with its Suppliers-Partners, based on mutual trust.
Our commitments are as follows :
- Developing a respectful, ethical, mutually trusting and balanced relationship. Enabling us to share our successes and ensure our compliance with our confidentiality agreements,
- Providing a digital SRM platform for continuous data sharing,
- Sharing performance targets and achieved results on an annual basis,
- Maintaining a responsible economic and financial relationship with our suppliers by ensuring the Group's financial soundness,
- Manage the risk of mutual dependency,
- Take social and environmental issues into account in our purchasing decisions,
- Encourage shorter supply chains and circular economy processes according to purchase categories,
- Be aware of our suppliers' innovations and deploy them when collectively approved,
- Consolidate all our suppliers LCA data to evaluate our end-products and actively contribute to reducing the global sector's impact.
Why become a SOCO supplier?
- Develop a relationship with a reliable and secure customer
- Participate and share in Socomore’s international growth
- Offer a wide range of products and services in response to Socomore’s various axes: surface preparation, surface treatment and control, etc.
- Benefit from access to the global aerospace market
- Be involved in project development and product/service life
We expect our suppliers to:
- Deliver daily operational performance (On Time in Full, On Quality Delivery)
- Build a constructive and transparent collaboration providing functional solutions and visibility on their sustainability,
- Use the SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) digital platform when available for information exchange,
- Continuous improvement of products and services provided in terms of safety, quality, cost, and timeliness, contributing to our global deployment.
- Compliance with the technical regulations applicable to their field of activity and communicated Applicable Requirements. Communication and compliance with Export Control Rules where applicable.
- Commitment to SOCOMORE's code of conduct and ethics, which can be consulted on our website,
- Sharing their decarbonisation plan and providing the carbon footprint for each item delivered to SOCOMORE.
- Integrating environmental impact and sustainability into the development of their activities and items by calculating the LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) of products, in order to meet our target of achieving an 80% LCA for our finished products by 2030,
- Reducing their environmental impact by optimising the use of natural resources (water, energy, raw materials),
- Prioritising sustainable, renewable and ideally local resources,
- Actively participating in waste recycling channels and adopting circular economy practices (recycling, reuse, etc.).
SOCOMORE develops long-term partnerships with its suppliers, integrating Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issues in line with the six pillars of our Purchasing Policy.
- Ensure the availability and sustainability of current sourcing,
- Integrate innovative products,
- Guarantee our competitiveness with our customers and ensure the economic sustainability of our suppliers,
- Reduce our dependency on greenhouse gases (GHG) by improving and/or selecting materials with a lower impact in our products,
- Reducing our impact more broadly by assessing our sourcing according to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to cover 80% of our sales by 2030,
- Respecting and promoting safety and fundamental human rights throughout our supply chain.
Our purchasing policy is based on balanced and sustainable collaboration with our supplier partners, with the shared goal of achieving operational, social, environmental and economic performance.
We are looking for different materials for our 4 R&D poles:
Surface Treatment
aqueous corrosion inhibitors, biosurfactants, inorganic salts, hydrotropes
Adhesives & Sealants
neat resins, curing agents, fillers, rheology additives
Surface Preparation
VOC free solvents, green corrosion inhibitors, biosurfactants, thixotropic agents
You want to become a SOCO supplier?
