Basic stance for promoting sustainability across supply chains
Living up to the OMRON Principles, the OMRON Group is committed to solving social issues through business, while also contributing to the sustainable development of society by promoting ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) activities. In response to growing social demand, OMRON is also working to enhance sustainable procurement through its supply chain in order to fulfill even wider social responsibilities.
To achieve sustainable procurement, the OMRON Group pursues activities in two stages: Initiatives with all suppliers and initiatives with critical suppliers.
Under initiatives with all suppliers, we achieve stable procurement by defining minimum requirements across five areas: Environmental management, chemical substance management, quality management, contract management, and financial management. We conduct improvement activities to meet all of these requirements. Under initiatives with critical suppliers, we confirm RBA compliance policies at the top levels with each organization, continuing to raise compliance levels through mutual targets based on the requirements of RBA.
We strengthen business relationships with our critical suppliers over the medium and long term, increasing our purchasing ratios to enhance the level of sustainability in our supply chain more effectively.
We have established minimum requirements under the following five categories, working with our suppliers to improve these areas:
In addition to meeting the minimum requirements above, we establish shared goals for RBA requirements, continuing to make improvements every year to achieve steady improvement.
The KPIs are under progress as follows.
| KPI | Target | Progress | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2020 | FY2017 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | ||
| All Suppliers | Ratio of purchase from suppliers who meet the minimum requirements *1 | 95% and more | 52% | 74% | 86% | 90% |
| Critical Suppliers | Commercial products: Ratio of suppliers to implement RBA Corporate Level SAQ *1 | 100% | 90% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Commercial products：Achieve LOW risk level (RBA Corporate Level SAQ score of 85 or more) *2 | 100% | 42% | 49% | 76% | 100% | |
| Processed products: Ratio of suppliers to implement RBA self-check *2 | 100% | 43% | 71% | 69% | 100% | |
| Processed products：Achieve LOW risk level (RBA compliant self-check score of 160 or more) *2 | 100% | 26% | 66% | 58% | 55% | |
Ratio of purchase from critical suppliers was 40% in fiscal 2017, 42% in fiscal 2018, 43% in fiscal 2019 and 50% in fiscal 2020. *1
The OMRON Group employs the following approach to identify critical suppliers.
The OMRON Group established a network consisting of HQ procurement departments, overseas HQs, business units, and manufacturing facilities, sharing and cascading group procurement policies and measures through regular procurement staff meetings. We are expanding initiatives related to procurement activities, including sustainable procurement, on a global basis, implementing these activities throughout the entire group.
To ensure supply chain sustainability, OMRON has introduced specific action guidelines to be followed by in-house and suppliers, and promotes the observance of these guidelines.
OMRON has signed basic purchase transaction contracts with suppliers. These contracts include the guidelines that stipulate specific actions and behaviors that should be implemented and maintained by suppliers. The Supplier Code of Conduct set in the Sustainable Procurement Guidelines conforms to RBA standards, and also specifies the policy and procedure for dealing with violations of the guidelines. In fiscal 2019, all of the new suppliers agreed to comply with the guidelines. In November 2019, OMRON revised the guidelines in response to changes in social trends and the latest RBA Code of Conduct.
The OMRON Group conducts global procurement activities, working with suppliers to improve sustainability across the supply chain.
