Business 27 December 2021, 12:15pm

Schneider Electric to expand its Budapest-based regional procurement centre

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Schneider Electric is expanding its regional procurement centre in Budapest, which has been operating since 2017, and the number of employees there could rise to nearly 300 from the current 150 by 2023. The company's chief procurement officer, Daniel W. Bartel, also manages this operation from the Hungarian capital, which means Budapest is the base for the co-ordination EUR 12 billion in annual procurement and the work of 1,400 employees worldwide.

Schneider Electric operates two procurement centres in Europe, supporting the purchases of the company's 74 plants in 25 countries. In Budapest, a team of 150 people is currently responsible for this task, with a total of around 6,000 suppliers.

The Budapest Regional Procurement Centre is of strategic importance, and Daniel W. Bartel, Schneider Electric's Global CPO, has also been relocated to the Hungarian capital this year to manage the global operations of the area from the Hungarian headquarters.

Schneider Electric plans to

increase the headcount of the global supply chain's (gsc) budapest-based procurement centre to 300 from the current 150 by 2023.

More senior managers will join the team in the near future.

Zsolt Veres, Chief Executive Officer of Schneider Electric Hungária Zrt., said "the local operations play an important role in the life of the company. vezérigazgatója. The regional headquarters of our Energy and Sustainability Services (ESS) business is located in Budapest with around 200 employees, we have four plants in the country and a logistics centre in Szigetszentmiklós, also with regional functions, serving more than 20 countries, so in total we employ around 2,000 people," he added.

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