As an ordering/instructing party, La Poste Groupe must ensure that its suppliers comply with these regulations throughout the contractual relationship. Supplier compliance is therefore all the procedures implemented by the Group’s Purchasing Department to ensure that a supplier complies with the regulations applicable to it, in order to avoid any risk related to their non-compliance.
Supplier compliance consists of several different compliance areas, each governed by specific regulations:
International sanctions and embargoes
Fight against corruption
GDPR
Fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism
Duty of care
Documentary compliance, including compliance with the duty of care
To find out more, visit the Compliance and Ethics page.
The Group’s Purchasing Department has a specific corpus for supplier compliance. Its objective is to outline the shared foundation of values, commitments and rules governing the everyday work of all players related to purchasing.
Therefore, three texts make up the foundation of supplier compliance:
La Poste SA Purchasing Compliance Policy
La Poste Groupe Responsible Purchasing and Ethics Charter
Responsible and ethical commitments of the La Poste Groupe Purchasing Department
Supplier compliance is also reflected in the contractual documentation that the supplier signs to enter into a commercial relationship with La Poste Groupe. In this respect, the following may be mentioned:
The specific contractual clauses related to the service provided
The general purchasing conditions (GPC) – Articles 7, 27, 28, 29 and 33
The Group's purchasing department deploys the “e-Conformité fournisseurs” solution to meet its objective of securing supplier compliance risks.
An innovative solution on the market, it makes it possible to control and assess a supplier in all areas of compliance, to identify the existence of a risk and its level of severity, and to support the supplier through an action plan to bring the relationship into compliance.
The Group’s Purchasing Department has made supplier compliance one of its main challenges, but it also intends to guarantee the perfect ethics of everyone’s practices in the implementation of all its purchasing processes.
To this end, the Group’s Purchasing Department undertakes to:
The stakeholders involved in the purchasing process undertake to work with the buyer to ensure strict compliance with purchasing rules and ethics. This is reflected in the application of regulatory texts governing La Poste’s purchases (European directives).
La Poste Groupe’s Purchasing Information System provides real-time traceability of the procurement process.
The selection and assessment of suppliers is carried out using predefined and explicit criteria. La Poste undertakes to respect the confidential nature of the information provided by suppliers.
La Poste Groupe is committed to an organized ethics approach. It has also implemented a Corruption Prevention Policy and has defined rules for its employees for this purpose.
Several documents make up the anti-corruption kit distributed by the Group:
La Poste Groupe has adopted a global compliance approach.