Purchasing Policy
Unitika’s purchasing departments will engage in transparent and fair procurement practices that meet personal and community standards.
They will uphold our duty as a company to engage in responsible procurement practices, placing emphasis on CSR activities. Under our purchasing policy, we will carry out supply chain management initiatives with our business partners and clients.
Purchasing Policy
1. Legal Compliance
When executing purchasing activities, the Company will comply with laws and community standards, engaging in transparent, fair procurement practices and aiming to be a good corporate citizen.
2. Harmony with Environment
When procuring products or services, the Company will value environmental awareness and the preservation of safety, endeavoring to purchase products and raw materials of low environmental impact.
3. Respect for Human Rights; Improving Working Environments
When engaging in purchasing activities, the Company will respect human rights and ensure that all forms of prejudice are eliminated when work is executed. The Company will make efforts to ensure health and safety, and to improve work environments.
4. Partners (CSR Aspects)
The Company will aim to create better partnerships, and ask partners to:
- ① Comply with legal and community standards
- ② Work on activities to preserve the environment and to ensure safety
- ③ Respect human rights; value efforts to improve working environments
- ④ Endeavor to ensure appropriate quality/prices and reliably on-time delivery, and to maintain and improve products and services
- ⑤ Abide by our chemicals management guidelines
Additionally, cooperate in surveys and reports related to them
Strengthening Supply Chain Management
The Unitika Group has set strengthening supply chain management as a priority issue. We are familiarizing business partners and clients with our purchasing policy, while also periodically conducting CSR procurement surveys to check the situation of our business partners and clients, and working with them to improve issues in the supply chain.
In FY 2024, we conducted the second CSR procurement survey to strengthen supply chain management through communicating our purchasing policy in the supply chain and conducting improvement activities.
CSR Procurement Survey
PDCA cycle of Supply Chain Management
Fiscal year of implementation
FY 2024
Survey targets
63 companies*
Number of respondents
60 companies (95.2% response rate)
Survey contents
- ① Legal compliance
- ② Harmony with the environment
- ③ Improving working environments and human rights
- ④ Product safety and quality assurance
- ⑤ Management of chemicals Setting relevant questions from these categories
* Main business partners and clients in the Unitika Group’s Polymers segment, including Group companies in Japan, and main business partners and clients related to energy at production sites
KPIs of Priority Issues (Materiality)
Response rate of the CSR procurement survey(Main business partners and clients)
FY 2030 target: 80%
FY 2024 actual results: 95.2%
Plans going forward
We will analyze the survey results, identify supply chain-related issues, and make improvements to the supply chain. Going forward, we will regularly conduct surveys to check for improvements. This is how we will continuously run the PDCA cycle, and link it to our purchasing policy in the supply chain.