Polpharma Group | Suppliers

Our suppliers keep medicines moving across CEE, CIS and Central Asia

For 90 years we have helped people live healthy lives in a healthy world. That depends on partners who deliver - on quality, on time, and at scale.

Why partner

Few buyers offer this much volume, for this many years.

We add suppliers deliberately and keep them for years. Whichever part of the group you serve: direct markets, finished dosage forms or active ingredients, the relationship is built to last.

Scale and stability

Around 400 million packages leave our plants every year, across eight manufacturing sites and five R&D centres.

8 plants · 6 R&D centres

Long-term partnerships

We build lasting relationships and invest in suppliers who grow with us over time, since 1935.

90 years · since 1935

Innovation together

From active ingredients to advanced dosage forms, we develop new solutions with our partners.

Rx · OTC · API · devices

“We buy for patients first. That means suppliers who hold quality when it is hard, act with integrity when no one is checking, and stay with us for years – because a medicine supply chain is only as strong as the partners in it.”

Philip Fritzsche, Group Chief Procurement Officer

Our standards

Patient safety sets the bar for every supplier we choose, in every country.

The medicines we make carry real consequences, so we expect partners to meet the standards we hold ourselves to. Our Supplier Code of Conduct sets them out across five areas.

01 Ethics and compliance

Integrity, anti-bribery and responsible conduct, in line with our Code of Ethics.

02 Quality and reliability

Consistent quality and dependable supply at every stage of the value chain.

03 Cybersecurity

Lower environmental impact and responsible sourcing across the supply chain.

04 Sustainability

Lower environmental impact and responsible sourcing across the supply chain.

05 Innovation

A continuous-improvement mindset and willingness to develop new solutions together.

What we BUY

From active ingredients to capital projects, we source across every site.

We buy across three main groups. Choosing the one that fits routes your enquiry to the team that handles it.

Direct

Materials that go into our products.

Where the Group is the local company, national teams hold the authorisations, negotiate reimbursement, win the tenders and run the sales force, on a shared platform underneath across roughly twelve direct-presence markets.

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Indirect

Goods and services that support the business.

Where the Group is the local company, national teams hold the authorisations, negotiate reimbursement, win the tenders and run the sales force, on a shared platform underneath across roughly twelve direct-presence markets.

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Engineering

Technical, facilities and capital projects.

Where the Group is the local company, national teams hold the authorisations, negotiate reimbursement, win the tenders and run the sales force, on a shared platform underneath across roughly twelve direct-presence markets.

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Put your capabilities in front of the buyer  who needs them.

Few of these started as a single deal and stayed there. The strongest run across several models at once, and have for years.

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For Current & NEw Suppliers

Find exactly what your entity needs to ship, invoice and get paid.

The Supplier Portal holds the working detail: document library, invoicing rules by entity and country, purchase-order terms and ESG resources.

Document library

Filterable by audience and topic, with downloads.

pdf file (112.28 kb)

Invoicing requirements

Checklists and rules, by entity and country.

pdf file (112.28 kb)

Policies & Guidelines

Procurement policies, with links to corporate ones.

pdf file (112.28 kb)

Responsible, sustainable sourcing

We cut our own emissions 41%, and our supply chain is the next target.

Ethics & Compliance

Our Code binds every Group entity, and everyone who works with us.

Our suppliers keep medicines moving across CEE, CIS and Central Asia

Few buyers offer this much volume, for this many years.

Patient safety sets the bar for every supplier we choose, in every country.

01 Ethics and compliance

02 Quality and reliability

03 Cybersecurity

04 Sustainability

05 Innovation

From active ingredients to capital projects, we source across every site.

Direct

Packaging

Active pharmaceutical ingredients (API)

Intermediates & raw materials

Excipients

Indirect

IT & telecommunications

Marketing

Promotion

Events & sponsorship

Car fleet

GPS

Engineering

Production machinery & equipment

Utilities

Construction services

Laboratory equipment

Technical materials

Buildings maintenance

OSH

Environmental protection

R&D services

Leasehold estate

Put your capabilities in front of the buyer who needs them.

Find exactly what your entity needs to ship, invoice and get paid.

Document library

Invoicing requirements

Policies & Guidelines

Few buyers offer this much volume, for this many years.

Put your capabilities in front of the buyer  who needs them.

Find exactly what your entity needs to ship, invoice and get paid.