The consumer Lifestyle sector operates in the business areas: Connected Displays, Video & Multimedia, Audio & Multimedia, Home Networks, Peripherals & Accessories, Domestic Appliances, Shaving & Beauty and Health & Wellness. It runs manufacturing operations in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Hungary, Austria, Poland, the USA, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, China and Singapore.
1.1.2 Company Mission, Vision and Values
Mission
Improve the quality of people’s lives through timely introduction of meaningful innovations.
Vision
In a world where complexity increasingly touches every aspect of our daily lives, we will lead in bringing simplicity to people.
Values
Delight customer – We anticipate and exceed customer expectations.
Deliver great results – We continually raise the bar
Develop people – We get the best from ourselves and each other
Depend on each other - We deliver more value by working as One Philips
1.1.3 Company Brand and Vision of 2010
Brand
Philips empowers people to benefit from innovation by delivering on their brand promise of “sense and simplicity”. This brand promise encapsulates Philips commitment to deliver solutions that are advanced, easy to use, and designed around the needs of all users.
Vision of 2010
Vision 2010 establishes the character of Philips as a people-focused, market-driven company that is organized around customers and markets. By understanding trends in society and obtaining deep insight into issues confronting people in their daily lives, we ensure that people’s needs remain at the heart of everything we do.
Philips aims to simplify organizational structure by forming three sectors- Healthcare, Lighting, and Consumer Lifestyle – as next step in evolution into a market-driven, people-centric global leader in its fields.
1.2 One Philips Philosophy
The ONE Philips is a company-wide program launched in 2002 to streamline Philips into a focused, agile and more cost-effective organization.
The implementation of the ONE Philips program started within each discipline: F&A, IT, HRM, Purchasing, Marketing, others. Now the challenge is the continuing deployment of the program between the disciplines.
The core of the ONE Philips program is unification of Sectors (Healthcare, Lighting and Consumer Lifestyle), standardization and structurization of the company activities/processes. The main goal of the program is to bring savings to Philips.
ONE Philips program is running, which eventually should lead to Sustainability, Synergies and Savings within Philips.
(One Philips Philosophy -One page strategy can be found in Appendix )
1.3 Philips Supply Management
The pace of technological change and intensified competition over the last decades has made business transformation imperative. Within Philips, a paradigm shift was made from Purchasing to Supply Management, ai
