Breadcrumb
We offer services in grocery and non-food retail, specialty retail, fuels retail and service stations, as well as travel industry and hospitality business. Our network comprises 2000 outlets across Finland. S Group consists of 19 cooperatives and Suomen Osuuskauppojen Keskuskunta SOK (The Central Finnish Cooperative Society) with its subsidiaries.As a major operator, we have a large number of suppliers of different kinds and sizes. We treat all suppliers equally and adhere to our ethical principles in relation to them. In accordance with our ethical principles, we operate responsibly and with integrity, and expect the same from our partners. SOK and the cooperatives have joined the EU register of good trading practices.S group is the market leader in the commercial sector in Finland, with retail sales of 14.5 billion euros excluding tax. We have approximately 40,000 employees and approximately 2.7 million co-op members. Our values are based on responsible cooperative principles. As a cooperative, the purpose of our operations is the customer and their needs
Guidelines for chain and local suppliers, and new suppliers
Information for chain suppliers
Here you can find our quality and sustainability requirements, as well as instructions for deliveries, packaging, product images and product recalls.
Information for local suppliers
In our local partnerships, we also follow S Group’s common product quality criteria for all suppliers. Here you can find the contact details for the regional cooperatives, our common quality and sustainability requirements, as well as guidelines for product deliveries, packaging, product images and product recalls.
New supplier?
Are you interested in supplying products to our nation-wide assortment, or locally? Select the appropriate alternative below.
S-data
S-data supports data-based decision-making and managementWould you like to see your real-time sales data and market share of your products by store and regionally inside S Group? Would you like to receive daily forecasts of future orders for your products? Would it be useful for you to see the sales of your competitors' products?S-data is a cloud-based service that opens access to order forecast and sales data related to the supplier's own products in the S group's data warehouse.
SATO - S Group Value Chain Management
The large-scale renewal work will increase the effectiveness of retail business operations and create new opportunities for digital services. Our goal is to improve our operations control and to develop our operations. Our new data system will require more extensive product and supplier data.The SATO system project will implement one system environment for the entire S group operations control. The change applies to all retail fields of operation and all chains. The core of the system architecture is SAP.Our operation models will be renewed, and new forms for offer processing will be implemented. At the same time, the importance of product data and schedules will increase further.Product data serves processes that are significant for different business activities, such as goods flow management, assortment and sourcing planning, payments, quality control, e-commerce, and digital services. Data stored in Synkka database is utilized in all of our processes.The SATO project and the renewed operation models brought along with it were implemented on 28th September 2020. The new supplier portal will be opened gradually after the SATO implementation.