Great results were achieved by OMAL of Brescia, that on 19 May, 2016 at the Unicredit Pavilion of Milan was awarded the first prize in the category of “Ethical and Sustainable Acquisitions" of the Procurement Awards 2016 with the “GREEN-in” project. The competition selected the best practices pursued by their Buying Offices, subdivided into four categories: Best Negotiation practice, Innovation, Team Buying Process, and lastly, Ethics and Sustainability.
For the “Ethics and Sustainability” category, OMAL presented a project implemented in China starting from 2013, aimed at improving the quality of business relationships with a local cast iron supplier, which for three years was supported by the technicians of OMAL in order to improve his quality product and process performance, first of all by training him on the more ecological production methods and in more effective negotiation procedures.
The jury awarded the “courage to support a foreign supplier, overcoming the classic buyer logics ” - oriented exclusively to the minimisation of the price - “implementing an improvement path of industrial processes with evident and proven social and environmental impacts.”
The GREEN-in project falls under the Social Innovation strategy “Walk the Talk” which OMAL has just started to integrate in all its operating units: a long and excellent path for a company that promises and maintains its motto, “Empowered Performance.”
