Our community of Supply Chain professionals are embedded within our business units - ensuring best practice supply chain management within their local context.
We partner with a broad range of organisations across the energy lifecycle who work with us to ensure safe, secure and responsible generation and to deliver fair value, better service and simplicity to our customers
We recognise the importance of suppliers as stakeholders to our business and understand that our responsibilities extend beyond our own direct activities through our supply chain associations. We therefore expect our suppliers to share our ambitions and emulate our values to ensure safe, sustainable business partnerships.
Supporting our suppliers
Cash-flow is vital to all businesses (including us) and to assist our suppliers we continue to offer our Santander backed Supply Chain Financing scheme. This allows suppliers to get early access to payment - for a small charge – for invoices which we have cleared and approved through our payment process. Payment can be available significantly in advance of contract payment terms. We have also created a handy questions and answers document which provides information and understanding.
We encourage our suppliers to utilise our Tungsten eInvoicing Portal. Using the Portal is quicker (fewer process steps as compared to handling traditional invoices) and also removes paper from the payment chain.
How EDF and our supply chain are helping Britain to achieve Net Zero
EDF group, of which we are part, has committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. The group confirmed this ambition in 2020 by signing the “Business Ambition for 1.5°C commitment” and, as a result, is part of the global Race to Zero campaign for the COP26 Climate Summit in November 2021, you can read more about EDFs global commitments.
EDF in the UK’s purpose is helping Britain achieve Net Zero by leading the transition to a cleaner, low emission electric future and tackling climate change - read more about our sustainability roadmap.
EDF recognises that business has a key role to play in the transition to a net zero economy in the UK by 2050 and we encourage our suppliers to join us in committing to take real action to combat climate change in the following ways;
EDF is associated with the UK government-endorsed network, the UK Business Group Alliance for Net Zero (BGA), through its membership of some of the country’s leading business groups and through this is supporting UK business action on climate change.
In our day to day activities we work with our suppliers to identify innovation, processes and initiatives that improve the sustainability of our operations:
Supplier information management kit
The Supplier Information Management Portal enables existing suppliers to maintain their master data and prospective business partners to register their interest in working with us.
Companies registering interest will become visible to internal business users who can initiate a new supplier request for review by the appropriate supply chain team.
Nuclear New Build supplier opportunities
Join our supply chain and become part of our plans to build a more sustainable future.
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The information below gives more detail on the standards and expectations of our suppliers in relation to safety, sustainability, ethics, quality, standards of conduct and contracting.