Working with Suppliers
Bank of Ireland conducts procurement activities with suppliers around the globe. We are committed to responsible business practices that make it easier for our suppliers to do business with us. We want to ensure that all our suppliers operate in an ethical and responsible manner and that they are aligned with our purpose.
To support this commitment Bank of Ireland has created our Code of Supplier Responsibility that applies to all of our suppliers. It defines what we expect from our Suppliers in terms of responsible business practice and behaviour. Please also refer to the ‘Sourcing Responsibly’ section of this site.
Bank of Ireland is also part of the Financial Supplier Qualification System (FSQS) Community. FSQS is designed to standardise and manage our requests for supplier compliance and assurance data and to ensure that our Suppliers meet our policy compliance expectations. We have summarised these minimum policy compliance requirements in the Bank of Ireland Third Party Policies. More information on Policy Compliance is included in the ‘Being a Supplier to Bank of Ireland’ section of this site.
Group Procurement and Partner Management are supported by Accenture who provide the engine behind the execution of our sourcing and contracting activities. The joint team is responsible for working across the Bank to deliver end to end procurement services including category and sourcing strategies, strategic partner management and partner risk management.
We use an industry leading Procurement technology platform, Coupa, to underpin our sourcing activities as part of this transformation. For more information on Coupa please refer to the ‘Sourcing Process’ section of this site.