Purchase information

The Purchase Department gathers information on ingredients.

1. Basic purchasing policy

We conduct operations according to the basic purchasing policy.

  1. Equal opportunity / fairness / justice
    We welcome domestic and international business partners in pursuit of equal opportunity, and deal fairly and justly with all customers.
  2. Economic rationality
    When selecting and evaluating business partners, we assess quality, delivery time, price, service, reliability, safety, etc. in a comprehensive manner.
  3. Legal compliance and rejection of antisocial organizations
    We comply with relevant laws and their spirit in the course of purchase transactions.
  4. Green procurement
    We conduct purchasing operations based on resource protection and environmental protection in the selection of purchases.
  5. 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%
FY2024 CSR Procurement Questionnaire Assessment Results
Assessment Scores (response ratio average)

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. Items with info

Fatty acids, alcohols, solvents, acid alkalis, packaging materials

3. 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.

4. Contact

Purchase Dept. In charge: Kawai and Hayashi

541-0051 4-9, Bingomachi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka

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