The Purchase Department gathers information on ingredients.
1. Basic purchasing policy
We conduct operations according to the basic purchasing policy.
- Equal opportunity / fairness / justice
We welcome domestic and international business partners in pursuit of equal opportunity, and deal fairly and justly with all customers.
- Economic rationality
When selecting and evaluating business partners, we assess quality, delivery time, price, service, reliability, safety, etc. in a comprehensive manner.
- Legal compliance and rejection of antisocial organizations
We comply with relevant laws and their spirit in the course of purchase transactions.
- Green procurement
We conduct purchasing operations based on resource protection and environmental protection in the selection of purchases.
- Promotion of CSR procurement
We strive to fulfill our social responsibilities by working on CSR throughout the supply chain, including business partners involved in our business activities, promoting CSR procurement.
Results of the FY2024 CSR Procurement Self-Assessment Survey
We strive to fulfill our social responsibilities such as complying with laws and regulations, guaranteeing product safety and quality, and respecting human rights, as well as to enhance our supply chain through contributing to the community, environmental conservation, and so on.As part of these efforts, we established our CSR Procurement Guidelines in June 2024.
These Guidelines are both published on our website, as well as notified to our business partners via email to share their content.
In addition, we carried out a CSR Procurement Self-Assessment Survey to ensure our business partners can understand CSR-related risks and move ahead with initiatives towards improvement.
1. Survey Outline
•Survey Targets
Purchase Department business partners
•Period Covered
FY2024
•Survey Content
Used Global Compact Network Japan’s “CSR Procurement Self-Assessment Questionnaire”
•Items
Corporate governance, Human rights, Labor, Environment, Fair business practices, Quality and safety, Information security, Supply chain, Local communities
2. Aggregated Results
Response ratio
94% (approx. 200 companies) of business partners returned responses.
| Judgment |
Scoring Category |
Ratio |
| A |
90 or higher |
33% |
| B |
61～89 |
44% |
| C |
60 or lower |
23% |
3. Assessment Results
The average score from the questionnaire was 78%.
Looking at the results broken down by category, while “Labor” “Quality and safety” and “Information security” were high, the “Supply chain” assessment was relatively low.
Responding business partners were presented with radar charts showing the aggregated results (average scores), and asked to confirm their strengths and weaknesses in comparison with their own self-assessments, and to work on sustained improvements for their weaknesses in particular.
In addition, these radar charts were also presented to business partners from whom no responses were received to this survey, asking them to actively engage in promoting CSR procurement and to cooperate with the next questionnaire.
These CSR questionnaires will be continued in the future, and we shall engage in activities towards the construction of a sustainable supply chain.
2. No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation policy
Nippon Fine Chemical is committed to sustainable and responsible sourcing of palm oil and palm kernel oil derivatives. As part of this, we aim to procure palm oil and palm kernel oil derivatives from suppliers that follow the No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation (NDPE) policy, do not clear forests or peatland to develop new palm plantations, and respect human rights.
We are a member of the Action for Sustainable Derivatives (ASD), which is a collaborative initiative that brings together companies to collectively tackle environmental and social issues in the supply chains related to palm oil and palm kernel oil derivatives. Through this, we will increase the transparency of the palm oil and palm kernel oil derivatives supply chains in which we are involved, strengthen risk monitoring, and further strengthen our procurement based on the NDPE policy.
3. Items with info
Fatty acids, alcohols, solvents, acid alkalis, packaging materials
4. The flow up to the transaction start
- Information provision and evaluation
- We will evaluate the information you provide and arrange a meeting based on the evaluation results.
- Meeting and evaluation
- At the meeting, we will receive specific proposals from you, then check and negotiate quality and prices.
- Sample evaluation
- If the quality, price, etc. meet expectations, we will evaluate the quality through a sample.
- Actual machine evaluation
- We perform test production with actual equipment and evaluate it with the product.
- Finalization of specifications and conclusion of basic contract
- We have you prepare a delivery specification and conclude the contract after approval.
In addition to signing a basic contract with new business partners, we also ask that you submit necessary documents such as preparing a name list and payment conditions.
- Ordering
- After completing all steps, we will place an order based on the contract.
5. Contact
Purchase Dept. In charge: Kawai and Hayashi
541-0051 4-9, Bingomachi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka
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