Continuous improvement and audit
Univar is committed to quality and continuous improvement in all areas of the company. We have an ongoing quality improvement process in place in each of our business units designed to identify potential errors and eliminate them before they happen. Our goal is to increase customer service and help assure that we meet customer requirements the first time.
We also continue to refine our continuous-improvement environment with an emphasis on achieving productivity enhancements. Our managers measure workflow processes to improve the amount of product per employee we move through our facilities, reduce or eliminate unnecessary or redundant inventory and generally increase the return we realise on all assets employed in our business.
Univar conducts an annual evaluation of the company’s internal controls and risk control systems, policies and procedures using guidance from the framework developed by the 1992 Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).