Selling to Us

Global sourcing is essential to our success. Our focus is to connect to the market and develop a sustainable global competitive advantage for Sauer-Danfoss and our suppliers.

Today's market conditions have transformed our global procurement strategies and policies at Sauer-Danfoss. As a result, we are gearing up to deliver faster and respond more efficiently to our customers' needs.

This is how we will do it:

• By helping suppliers improve their quality and delivery times
• By maintaining an open dialogue with suppliers on business plans, programs and capacity expectations
• By implementing global supplier standards and providing suppliers with comparative performance feedback
• By building trust through integrity and fairness in all supplier relationships 
• By providing growth opportunities for top-performing suppliers
• By early supplier involvement in product design

New Era in Procurement

A global procurement initiative to sustain future competitiveness has been launched.

Due to steadily increasing demands from our customers with respect to quality, delivery and prices as well as the pressure of unfavorable price developments in the supply markets, Sauer-Danfoss works steadily to ensure both superior customer service and competitiveness of Sauer-Danfoss in the future.

Sauer-Danfoss improve our business and learn through close relationships with our suppliers. The goals are clear:

• Enable the procurement organization through methodologies, processes and alignment to ensure the sustainability of the achieved benefits
• Identification of savings potentials in procurement costs
• Generation of savings in selected categories with unchanged or improved quality and delivery
• Development and implementation of group-wide sourcing strategies

Check out our Procurement area for more information.