
How do we buy?
AkzoNobel offers excellent opportunities to participate in mutual business development, both globally and regionally. We’re open to collaborations that help us create sustainable and innovative solutions which ultimately create value for our stakeholders and business partners. Our procurement activities are organized globally in the broad categories of Product Related (Raw Materials and Packaging) or PR, and Non-Product Related (Services and Consumables) or NPR and logistics. We optimize the sourcing mix – making use of global, regional and local sources – to meet the needs of our Business Units across all the regions and markets in which we operate.

33,000 suppliers globally

Sourcing ranges from 66 countries

Supplier expenditure yearly close to 6 billion eur

What do we expect from our suppliers?
We support our suppliers in their pursuit of continuous improvement and operational excellence. At the same time, we expect our suppliers to meet the highest standards in terms of quality, delivery, cost, innovation and sustainability.

Supplier information center
You will find invoicing instructions to ensure prompt payment from AkzoNobel, directions for how to raise a query about invoices, and instructions for supplier registration.

Become an AkzoNobel supplier
AkzoNobel aims work together with suppliers as partners.
We select high performing suppliers that deliver the best possible products and superior services that add real business value. We constantly evaluate new potential suppliers to find the most competitive in quality, delivery, cost, innovation and sustainability.