Purchasing Ecosystem

At BOBST, we value our suppliers as our strategic partners. We believe that by working together, we can achieve our common goals of delivering high-quality products, ensuring sustainability, and creating long-term value for our customers and society.

We are committed to building and maintaining strong relationships with our suppliers based on mutual trust, respect, and fairness. We expect our suppliers to share our vision and values, and to adhere to the highest standards of ethical conduct, environmental responsibility, and social accountability.

We offer our suppliers and our partners a long-term relationship and mutual growth. Here you will find all the information that you may need.

At BOBST we give great importance to HOW we deliver our mission. We seek to build respectful and trust-based relationships. We aspire to work with passion to deliver performance.

We believe that our values are not only important for our own success, but also for the success of our suppliers. We expect our suppliers to live our values and to demonstrate their commitment to sustainability, social responsibility, and ethical conduct. 

For these reasons, we expect each of our partner to sign our supplier code of conduct before getting into business relations.

Our Strategy & Values

Sustainability is one of the four pillars that guide BOBST’s vision for the future of packaging production. BOBST has a clear strategy based on three pillars: operations, equipment, and packaging use & end-of-life. These pillars reflect the company’s commitment to improve its performance in sustainability, measured by relevant business indicators.

For suppliers, BOBST adopted a four-step approach to address regulations, market demands, and customer requirements:

1 - Inform through the Supplier Code of Conduct (collected signed from suppliers as a commitment)
2 - Analyze using a Supplier Risk Analysis, led by the buyer responsible for the supplier
3 - Rate via an EcoVadis documentation evaluation
4 - Assess with an on-site evaluation of the supplier, if high risk is identified in the first three steps

Sustainability at BOBST 
Sustainability Policy

Sustainability - EcoVadis

EcoVadis is a business sustainability rating provider. The rating allows the supplier to monitor environmental, social and ethical performance and then share the results with its stakeholders. The evaluation is adapted to the size of the company, its industry, and its geographical area.
Four main themes are under examination and their results displayed on a scorecard:

Environment, Labor & Human Rights, Ethics and Sustainable Procurement

BOBST chose EcoVadis as 3rd party to evaluate the most strategic and the riskiest suppliers of our Supply Base to answer the Swiss Law (ODiTr), to prepare the new European regulations (CSRD-CSDDD) and to have a status of the Sustainability level of our supplier. To avoid a proliferation of sustainability audit requests, BOBST can accept an alternative evaluation if it meets our requirements.

EcoVadis platform

SCOC (Supplier Code of Conduct)

The BOBST Supplier Code of Conduct ensures that all suppliers meet our standards. This document covers the minimum requirements of Sustainability:

Conflict Minerals, Child Labor, Bribery, Conflict of interest, Counterfeit Parts, Human Rights, Data Protection, Intellectual Property…

Download BOBST Supplier Code of Conduct

General Terms & Conditions of Purchase (GT&Cs)
The objective of this section is to introduce a “General Terms & Conditions of Purchase” that govern the purchase of goods or services from our company.

Terms & Conditions