Building a Sustainable Supply Chain

We would like to fulfill our social responsibilities together with the suppliers that form our supply chain. Therefore, we strive to establish good partnerships.The partnerships shouldn’t be one-way relationships where we enforce our ideas but should be relationships where we and the suppliers mutually understand each other’s situations, and then we ask them to agree on our intentions regarding ESG Basic Policy and take their own actions. Or we may ask the suppliers who are making excellent efforts on ESG for help to incorporate such efforts in our ESG activities. Aiming for such ideal relationships, we have been steadily strengthening our activities to physically visit the suppliers since fiscal 2017 with the goal of further improving partnerships.
In June 2023, we signed the United Nations global compact, the world's largest sustainability initiative. We use it to ensure stable procurement.
In addition, we have started continuous monitoring using screening tools to quickly obtain sanctions/exclusions and negative news reports and to prepare for supply concerns.
We would like to strengthen our supply chain by both strengthening our relationship with suppliers and grasping information, and build relationships with suppliers that are recognized and developed by society.