For PT it is essential to create conditions to promote the alignment between its principles and those of its suppliers, believing that only in this way lasting partnerships can be created with mutual advantages and beneficial results for society and environment.

The supplier selection and hiring model is based on rigorous principles of transparency, honesty and
equality of opportunities, loyalty and confidentiality.

Business success and customer satisfaction are closely related to the capacity of selecting suppliers that fulfil the needs of the company and that are simultaneously aligned with PT’s conduct as well as its ethical, social and environmental principles.

For such purpose, a business unit – PT Compras – was created, whose function is to ensure a single
procurement model, transversal to all PT subsidiaries, whose aim is to gain bargaining synergies and an integrated and responsible management of the relationship with suppliers.

All suppliers are subject to a pre-selection phase. An electronic platform was created for this purpose
that specifies the necessary requirements for the potential candidates to register, as there are fields to fill in and to include documents to prove the capacity of response and ethical alignment with the principles defended and required by PT.

This platform has been improved consecutively by including new specifications and functionalities,
contributing to ensuring more equality of opportunities among potential suppliers, more rigour in the
evaluation of the candidates, and consequently more transparency in the selection process. Moreover, it also contributes to reducing process times, increasing confidentiality and information security, and lastly dematerialising day-to-day life and the carbon footprint of this function in the organisation.

PT adopted regulations that ensure that along its relationship with suppliers, there are always documents that regulate the minimal requirement in terms of ethical conduct and social responsibility.

For further details, please visit: PT Compras.