Our suppliers are key to our efforts to achieve a top position in the energy market. So we must focus on the best and most efficient suppliers to support us in attaining this goal. Supplier management promotes the successful cooperation between suppliers and RWE by creating transparency and continuously optimising our suppliers’ performance.

That is why the following critical success factors are our maxim for successful cooperation:

• Supplier selection
  "Fair selection“
• Supplier evaluation
  “On the right track with transparency and openness“
• Supplier classification
  "Identification and consistent implementation of individual approaches“
• Supplier development
  "Change or be changed – joint planning"

These factors are a key element of our procurement strategy.