The merchandising department at REWE Far East plays a crucial role in bridging the gap between REWE Group's buying teams in Europe and international suppliers. Working alongside the buying teams, their main responsibilities include planning, sourcing, and managing the product assortment that ends up on the store shelves.
Besides finding the right markets and suppliers that offer competitive opportunities they work closely with internal departments like Quality, Sustainability, Packaging, and Logistics to meet shipment deadlines and comply with legal and REWE Group standards. This cooperation is essential to provide an extensive range of high quality products at competitive pricing and to meet the needs and preferences of our consumers.
We strive to provide excellent products and best service that delivers premium value to all our customers. So, we ensure that our products, food and non-food fulfil all European regulations and REWE Group quality standards.
To keep pace with new technologies and requirements, our team works closely together with Merchandising, our quality colleagues in the German head office and with internationally recognized third-party testing institutes.
To ensure sustainability enhancement in our business and compliance with legal requirements, for example the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act, we have outlined our sustainability requirements for REWE Group suppliers who supply private-label products for us. We expect our private-label suppliers to conduct annual sustainability risk assessment, and our private-label production sites to conduct social audit.
Besides setting basic social and environmental requirements, we have developed training programs and initiated projects to support our suppliers and production sites in their journey of becoming more sustainable.
Sustainability is not a fleeting trend at REWE Group. Rather, it is a fundamental element of our business strategy.
The logistics department at REWE Far East plays a critical role in bridging the gap between our suppliers and distribution centres. The responsibility of our logistics team is to ensure the merchandises to be delivered to the right place within the required timeframe using different modes of transport.
Cost & Time Efficiency: Our Logistics team work directly with major carriers under negotiated rate with fixed allocation. In order to minimize rollovers or delays, we constantly monitor their performance.
Supported by experts: REWE Logistics professionals leverage their skills in strategy, analytics, and execution to continuously drive value for our brands and cope with all challenges.
Innovation: Our logistics experts have been looking for innovative ways to reduce the logistics cost and enhance the productivity.
The Packaging Department ensures that every step of the packaging process is optimised and efficient, with a focus on safety, sustainability and quality.
Our team works across the supply chain, from the collection of fractional data to ensure accuracy and sustainability, through sales packaging optimisation to ensure the materials used are environmentally friendly and further optimise shelf space, to transport packaging to ensure products are easily packed for efficient shipping.
