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## Operations 

## Production and Supply 

As part of the new strategy, we have been building an efficient, integrated Production and Supply (P&S) organization uniting global operational excellence from Crop Protection and grower insight and agronomic capabilities from Seeds. 

## Integrating the P&S organization 

In 2011, P&S made good progress in the development of an integrated organization, while driving further efficiencies and meeting the strong growth in demand for our products. 

P&S has also benefited greatly from the Learning & Exchange Accelerating Progress (LEAP) knowledge sharing initiative launched in 2009. In the past year LEAP has helped the integration of P&S across the chemical and seeds areas of our business through a wide range of awareness and education modules designed to support rapid knowledge transfer and learning. 

LEAP helped Syngenta earn recognition as one of Europe’s Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises in the 2011 MAKE Awards. These are the world’s longest running benchmarks for identifying organizations that deploy their knowledge effectively to outperform their peers. 

## Expanding production capacity 

We further increased seed production capacity in 2011, including investments in new corn seed processing plants in the Philippines, Indonesia, China and Hungary. We also expanded corn capacity in Latin America at three of our existing plants. In Brazil, PLENE ®  sugar cane production began in April at our new purpose-built facility. 

A more integrated approach is helping us to increase our own productivity, just as it does for our customers. For example, leveraging our crop protection expertise enabled our Argentinean seeds operation to set a new site record for corn shipments. 

All eight active ingredient manufacturing plants ran at or near capacity in 2011 in response to market growth. Our engineering team is currently engaged in many other projects to further enhance or expand production facilities and, in collaboration with R&D, we are preparing for the launch of around 50 new formulations. 

Global Procurement had a productive year, working in partnership with a number of key suppliers. Our chemicals operations have 15 core strategic supplier partnerships and a further 70 important partnerships. Our collaboration with these partners includes helping them maintain continuous improvement in quality, productivity and health, safety and environment (HSE) performance in line with our internal standards. We have similar HSE and quality partnerships with the contract farmers who are responsible for our seeds production. In a number of countries, we work with the Fair Labor Association to help ensure that our suppliers meet acceptable standards, particularly on child labor. The program now spans three regions and more than 16,800 suppliers. 

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