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Signicant procurement initiatives in  included:
• In  European countries, we assessed and consolidated the service requirements
for landline and mobile telephony, thus exploiting the currently favorable market
conditions and achieving substantial savings.
• When the Group’s engineering sta specied the conveyor and sorting technology
requirements for the new air hub in Leipzig, Procurement provided support with
the cost/benet analysis.
• We further reduced our road eet costs through calls for tenders.
• For several years, we have been inviting tenders for marketing and media services
for the Group and reducing the number of global suppliers. In , we have
focused these eorts on event and web design agencies as well as suppliers of
lithography and printing services.
Processes and systems standardized
For the past few years, we have been processing orders electronically in Germany,
France, Poland and the USA. In the year under review, we made improvements to
this order-processing platform, integrated additional business units into the process
and launched a comparable system in the Asia Pacic region.
e supplier management system launched in  was implemented globally. Under
this system, Procurement regularly reviews the services of key suppliers with its
internal customers to spot possible weaknesses at an early stage and arrange suitable
corrective measures with the suppliers.is review process also takes into account
whether the suppliers are meeting our ethical and ecological standards.
Research and development
As a pure service provider, Deutsche Post World Net does not engage in research and
development activities in the strict sense, and therefore has no signicant expenses
to report in that regard.
Business and Environment 39
Deutsche Post World Net Annual Report 2006
Group Management Report