Supply Chain Management
Green procurement
TOSHIBA TEC CORPORATION conducts the environmental protection assessment on suppliers and environmental performance survey on procured products. The design, production and procurement departments use the environmental performance information data.
Commitment to green procurement
TOSHIBA TEC CORPORATION moves forward with green procurement of raw materials related to products, in order to provide environmentally conscious products. We aim to procure environmentally conscious raw materials from suppliers, who are actively undertaking environmental protection measures. We have been conducting the "environmental protection assessment on supplies" and "environmental performance survey on procured products", according to the "Green Procurement Guidelines for Materials."
Environmental protection assessment on suppliers
Suppliers are ranked by scores according to the following criteria. Giving priority to procurement from high ranked suppliers, TOSHIBA TEC CORPORATION requests lower ranked suppliers to improve their operations or provide them with instructions and assistance. Defining the percentage of high-ranked suppliers to all suppliers as the green ratio, TOSHIBA TEC CORPORATION aims to achieve a 100% level.
| Environmental assessment criteria on suppliers |
| 1. Receiving ISO 14001 certification |
| 2. Promoting green procurement |
| 3. Commitment to environmental protection measures (22 items) |
Environmental performance survey on procured products
TOSHIBA TEC CORPORATION conducts the environmental performance survey on procured products according to the following criteria, and converts the results into a database.
| Environmental performance survey criteria on procured products |
| 1. Resource savings |
| 2. Reusability |
| 3. Recyclability |
| 4. Use of recycled materials |
| 5. Ease of disposal |
| Environment-related substance content |
Data utilization
The green procurement support system provides environmental performance information data to various in-house systems through the purchased component database. The design,production and procurement departments use the data.
Efforts for RoHS Directives
The EU's "the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (RoHS)" Directives (2002/95/EC) are enacted in February 2003.
These directives are facilitating the legislation in the Member States.
Consequently, electrical and electronic equipment, which contains certain hazardous substances (lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, PBB and PBDE) may not be able to be sold in the EU countries in and after July 2006. The TOSHIBA TEC Group is planning to abolish certain hazardous substances contained in new products to be marketed not only for EU but also for all destinations in April 2005 or later, in accordance with RoHS Directives. By voluntarily conducting incoming inspections on components and raw materials, we are improving the system to abolish the use of components and raw materials, which contain certain hazardous substances, on products.