EN Purchasing Suppliers as our partners. Suppliers as our partners. A long-term working relationship with our suppliers on a partnership basis creates success for us all, and ensuring that we meet our high quality standards for the products we supply is a decisive factor in this relationship. Therefore, we strongly focus on exchanging know-how already at an early stage and on integrating our suppliers closely into our business processes. Thus we increase our mutual innovative potential and provide excellent customer support. From our corporate headquarters in Lippstadt, we work through an internationally focused purchasing structure: the responsibility for our requirements with respect to quality and collaboration and our general contracts lies with the central headquarter; local purchasing organizations are established on a decentralized basis in the BHTC companies in the USA (Detroit), in China (Shanghai) and in India (Pune), and they work with both local and international suppliers. Our purchasing portfolio includes: Machines and equipment Services Raw materials and supplies Downloads Contract Principles: Purchasing Conditions Packing and Logistics Policy Procedure Description WEB-EDI Code of Conduct for Supplier and Service Providers of the BHTC Group Our goals and requirements Internationalization Collaboration with regional and global partners Establishment of an international supplier structure Innovation partnering Close, partnership-based and long-term working relationships with our suppliers Active and early integration of suppliers into the innovation process Joint development of future-driven solutions and products Intensive collaboration on quality Joint focus on quality – from the start of a project until the end of series production Series manufacture of mature and robust products Class A qualification for suppliers Basic requirements for collaboration Certification in accordance with IATF 16949 or DIN EN ISO 9000:2000 et al Environmental management system based on EMAS or DIN EN 14001 Modern logistics requirements such as JIT, STS, STL, KANBAN, external E-Kanban (Vendor Managed Inventory), consignment stocks WHO WE ARE Behr-Hella Thermocontrol GmbH (BHTC) is one of the world's leading companies in the field of climate control and thermal management for the automotive industry. Learn more about BHTC NEWS FROM BHTC ŠKODA ENYAQ iV: Setting Standards for Next-Generation Center Information Displays 18. May 2021 Autoline Exclusive Interview with Jürgen Peters and John McElroy 29. October 2020 CONTACT Behr-Hella Thermocontrol GmbH Hansastraße 40 D-59557 Lippstadt Phone: +49 (0) 2941/66 - 60 00 Fax: +49 (0) 2941/66 - 60 01 Mail: info@bhtc.com © 2019 Behr-Hella Thermocontrol GmbH • All rights reserved. Imprint • Privacy Policy • Instructions on Data Processing