Sustainable Procurement
Management System
Policy and Basic Approach
In order to fulfill our environmental and social responsibilities throughout the supply chain from a global perspective in sustainable procurement, it is essential to collaborate not only with the Mitsui Chemicals Group but also with our business partners.
In addition to conducting fair and honest transactions, the Group has established the Mitsui Chemicals Group Purchasing Policy, which incorporates items that we consider important when selecting suppliers, in order to build strong partnerships and implement purchasing activities.
The Group has established basic rules for purchasing as part of its Global Policy. The practical application of these rules ensures fair and law-abiding procurement for the Group at the appropriate terms, quality and pricing, and ultimately ensures compliance with laws and maintains and strengthens the Group's competitiveness.
The Mitsui Chemicals Group Purchasing Policy
The Mitsui Chemicals Group recognizes that all its suppliers are good partners and endeavors to trade with them fairly and in good faith in the hope that both the Group and its suppliers will achieve sustainable development.
The Mitsui Chemicals Group also tackles issues, with a global perspective, including environmental, social and corporate governance issues, across the entire supply chain, aiming to achieve sustainable procurement.
The Mitsui Chemicals Group is committed to conducting purchasing activities in accordance with this Group Purchasing Policy.
- Ensuring compliance
We will conduct purchasing activities in compliance with the applicable laws and regulations and appropriate social practices of the regions and countries in which we operate.
We will also require the same level of compliance from our suppliers. - Equal opportunity and transparency
We will be open in choosing our suppliers, and will offer equal opportunity for fair trade in good faith. - Selection of suppliers from the viewpoint of “sustainable procurement”
In the interests of building stronger partnerships, we will give priority to the following criteria.
- Suppliers that respect human rights, prohibit discrimination, and do not engage in any acts which violate human rights
- Suppliers that ensure fair working conditions and provide a safe and healthy working environment
Suppliers that prohibit forced labor, prohibit child labor and discrimination in hiring - Suppliers that are aware of environmental issues and are committed to solving and addressing them
- Suppliers that conduct fair corporate activities based on a sound management practices
- Suppliers whose performance in areas such as pricing, quality, and delivery term are at an adequate and reasonable level, and endeavor to maintain and improve their performance
Revised on February 1, 2019
In addition, we have compiled a list of items that we would like our suppliers to work on together with the Group to achieve sustainable procurement as "Mitsui Chemicals Group Sustainable Procurement Guidelines". We will make sure our business partners understand the intent of these guidelines and build strong partnerships with them.
System and Responsible Officers
With the responsible officer for the Purchasing Division, the Purchasing Division formulates and implements plans related to sustainable procurement for purchases made by the Mitsui Chemicals Group (Purchasing Division, major business divisions, and domestic and overseas affiliates).
* Each purchasing representative
Monitoring
We verify the status of sustainable procurement activities during annual audits conducted by corporate auditors and the Purchasing Division.
To realize sustainable procurement, the Purchasing Division regularly verifies the status of our suppliers by conducting sustainable procurement SAQ surveys and audits. The progress of these activity plans and results are monitored at monthly departmental meetings and reflected in next year's plan, and the status is reported at the Responsible Care Committee.
Goals and Results
In fiscal 2021, we conducted a sustainable procurement SAQ survey with our suppliers, which showed that our sustainable procurement ratio* was 61%.
In fiscal 2022, we provided feedback (interviews) to suppliers based on the fiscal 2021 survey results to request and support improvements in order to firmly establish sustainable procurement.
In fiscal 2023, in addition to strengthening communication with suppliers to achieve the fiscal 2030 target, we will work to inform our Group companies and request their cooperation so that sustainable procurement can be achieved throughout the Mitsui Chemicals Group.
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| Metric | Scope | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2030 (Medium to Long-term) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goals | Results | Level Achieved | Goals | Goals | ||
| Sustainable procurement ratio* | Global | Engaged communications with partners to solidify our efforts in this area | Improvement request meetings: 9 companies | ○ | Promotion of sustainable procurement; opinion exchange held with partners to build shared vision: 12 or more companies | 80% |
*Sustainable procurement ratio:
The ratio of the sum of transaction values with suppliers who responded to the sustainable procurement SAQ survey to the total transaction value (= Transaction values with suppliers who responded to SAQ / Total transaction value). This ratio is being monitored.