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Vesuvius Purchasing is to proactively challenge current practices, support all operations and direct the external spend, through:

• The identification and incorporation of innovative purchasing practices and strategies
• The coverage of raw materials and non raw material products and related services, across all Business Units and geographies
• The organisation and management of supplier relationships
  

In such a way that:

• It is recognised as customer-oriented, value-added, world-class, diverse and professional
• It leverages buying power and fosters collaboration and networking across Divisions and Regions
• It remains lean as a functional department

In order to:

• Create value by achieving better than market performance and by targeting a long-term decrease in total costs
• Make sure goods & services are timely delivered, of consistent quality and of required volumes
• Enable Vesuvius to maintain and further build its advantage vs. competitors and position itself as the reference partner in the molten metals industries.