SPX

UNIDO's Industrial Subcontracting & Partnership eXchange Programme

Over the last 25 years, UNIDO has established Subcontracting and Partnership Exchanges (SPXs) with the objective of helping local enterprises to successfully meet the challenges of globalization and to take advantage of the emerging opportunities that evolve from industrial subcontracting, outsourcing and supply chain opportunities. This original network has provided an information portal for matchmaking suppliers and buyers, and has been effective in dealing with short-term buying contracts on the basis of ‘requests for quotations’. UNIDO saw the need to enrich this traditional SPX approach by enabling the benchmarking of supplier capacities and support suppliers in achieving the levels required to penetrate the supply chains of the main contractors.