Procurement

The shipyard purchases a wide variety of products and services, and procurement entities can be very different in nature. The procurement department is responsible for purchasing technical entities, components as well as turnkey deliveries and subcontracting. The main task of the procurement department is to cooperate with other shipyard functions and pay attention to overall costs.

Procurement places tens of thousands of orders each year, rangin gin value from small orders at regular intervals to extremely valuable individual orders.

Some 600-800 companies work in the shipyard area during a single ship project – some for a few days and others for two years. Two-thirds of these companies are Finnish.

The procurement department ensures properly-timed deliveries and the availability of materials according to production needs. The department has commercial and legal responsibility for procurement contracts.

The buyers in this department are responsible for procurements in their own product area throughout the process and cooperates closely with the system responsible from the design department.

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