As a manufacturer and supplier of advanced materials and material products, Toray places importance on upstream management that reflects the needs of its end users, including management of production facilities as well as raw materials and materials purchased by the Company. In addition to its Basic Purchasing Policies for ensuring fair transactions, Toray has established CSR Procurement Guidelines that take into account the environmental and social aspects of the Company's procurement needs.
- Basic Purchasing Policies
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- Toray does its best to select suppliers and determine actual purchases fairly and on the basis of economic rationality, with consideration for price, quality, capability to provide stable supplies, technological capabilities, reliability, and other factors.
- In selecting suppliers, Toray opens its doors to a wide range of companies inside and outside Japan. Toray does not rely solely on vendors it has existing or past relationships with, or on members of its corporate group.
- In making purchases, Toray complies with relevant laws and regulations while taking environmental preservation and fulfilling corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues into account. Toray actively pursues green procurement and purchasing as part of its environmental efforts.
- Toray works to maintain and improve the quality of purchased products through cooperation with its suppliers.
- Toray works to uphold its corporate social responsibilities on a company-wide basis.
- CSR Procurement Guidelines
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- Establish an internal CSR organization and be committed to CSR
- Work to enhance corporate ethics and comply fully with all laws and regulations
- Position safety, accident prevention, and environmental preservation as a management priority and practice green procurement and purchasing whenever and wherever possible
- Put crisis management systems into place, including capabilities for responding swiftly in unexpected situations, and disclose accurate information
- Encourage dialogue and cooperation among all stakeholders
- Ensure product safety as a precondition for supplying products
- Respect human rights, eliminate discrimination, and improve workplace environments; prohibit forced labor, slave labor, child labor, and unfair low-wage labor
- Maintain the confidentiality of information and respect others' intellectual property rights
Toray employs a PDCA cycle as shown below in its CSR procurement activities. The Company also registers its suppliers who comply with the CSR Procurement Guidelines as CSR procurement partners.
- PDCA Cycle in CSR Procurement
In FY 2008, Toray introduced a CSR Supplier Management System in order to confirm the progress made by procurement partners in CSR initiatives. In September 2008, Toray held a CSR Procurement Questionnaire System Briefing for suppliers to promote understanding of its CSR initiatives. Fiber Frontier Co., Ltd., an electronic commerce service provider, offers this questionnaire system through its procurement website, enabling CSR procurement questionnaires to be conducted efficiently as part of its daily operations. The site is jointly used by Teijin Ltd. with the aim of making the questionnaire system into a common infrastructure component throughout the industry.
CSR Procurement Questionnaire System Briefing
