Social Responsibility
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Together with Suppliers
Basic Concept
It is essential to have reliable suppliers in order to continuously provide customers all over the world in a timely manner with products and services that are desirable in every aspect, such as quality, price, and environmental impact.
Recognizing this, Konica Minolta views the suppliers that provide its raw materials and parts as “essential partners in its business activities” and strives to build strong partnerships with those suppliers, based on fair and transparent transactions. The Group uses its close partnerships with its suppliers to improve quality, reduce costs, and promote green procurement.
Konica Minolta also promotes Group-wide efforts in CSR procurement, an area of recent growing demand, through which the Group cooperates with its suppliers to fulfill its social responsibility.
Konica Minolta established its Procurement Policy in April 2008 to clarify the Group's overall approach to procurement activities. This policy explicitly identifies a basic approach to procurement that is driven by the keywords "open, fair, global, compliance, and ecology," and outlines specific requests that are made to suppliers, including those relevant to CSR procurement.
