Equipment / Suppliers
With numerous production plants worldwide, L’Oréal collaborates with a broad community of industrial equipment suppliers divided into three categories:
- Manufacturing equipment: Production skids, weighing equipment, washing equipment, etc.
- Packaging machines: Fillers, labelers, distributors, multipack machines, etc.
- Utilities: Compressors, boilers, cooling systems, paletting, fire safety, etc.
Equipment / Purchasing
L’Oréal Purchasing, working directly with its suppliers, is tasked with:
Growth
Risk management
Cost management
GROWTH
- Helping to secure and improve innovations
- Helping the Group distinguish itself through its supplier network
RISK MANAGEMENT
- Actively contributing to risk management (Quality, capacity, deadlines, etc.)
COST MANAGEMENT
- Controlling the expense of purchases (particularly through total cost of ownership analysis)
Equipment / SH&E
The Group's Safety Health and Environment teams aim for excellence in environmental performance through better ecoefficiency, while maintaining a safe and healthy workplace.
This involves:
- Managing the safety, occupational health, and environment in the Group's plants, offices, and distribution centers.
- Provide orientations and assistance for improving SH&E performance.
- Gathering, analyzing, and publishing performance results and their trends as continuous improvement tools.
Equipment / Production
The production team is in regular contact with our equipment suppliers.
Its main tasks are:
- Handling the production of our finished products accordance with the specifications and the deadlines requested by our clients, while reducing their environmental impact and use of natural resources.
- Continuously improving our organizational methods, our production processes, and the performance of our manufacturing tools, partnering with our suppliers, for the purpose of maintaining our competitiveness and improving working conditions.