Communicating with StakeholdersCommunicating with Business Partners
To enhance our corporate value, we strive to maintain active communication and deepen mutual understanding with various stakeholders.
Basic Procurement Policy and Request to Our Business Partners
Under the basic procurement policy that we have established, we seek to build up reliable relationships with business partners who can provide us with a stable supply of products and services of superior quality at competitive prices. In order to enhance the performance and efficiency of the entire supply chain, we ask our business partners to agree to produce a stable supply following our supply chain guidelines, improve their competitiveness, comply with laws and regulations, respect human rights, and protect the environment.
Basic Procurement Policy
- Open and fair business dealings
- Harmonious mutual prosperity with partners
- Compliance with social norms and respect for human rights
- Environmental consciousness
Request to Our Business Partners
- Maintenance and improvement of product competitiveness, stable supply
- Compliance with laws, regulations, and social norms; respect for human rights; consideration for working conditions
- Environmental preservation
- Appropriate information management
- Sound corporate management
- Eliminating the use of conflict minerals
Procurement
In addition, we place great importance on responsible procurement practices aimed at mitigating the risk of sourcing conflict minerals (such as tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold), which are used to finance armed groups abetting human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjoining countries.