CSR Procurement Guidelines

Request for action in line with the azbil Group CSR Procurement Guidelines for business partners

We, the azbil Group, actively endeavor to help achieve a sustainable society and protect the global environment through our business activities. Our actions, which are in line with the azbil Group Philosophy, focus not only on Japan but also include the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),*1 which are a global undertaking.

In view of this, we will build a long-term relationship of trust with you, the azbil Group’s business partners, in our procurement activities and thereby enhance the added value provided by both you and the azbil Group. With this foundation, we will reinforce our supply chain initiatives to fulfill our social responsibilities more proactively amid growing expectations from society with respect to the SDGs and other important challenges.

As part of this, we prepared CSR*2 Procurement Guidelines for the Group. Taking both social and environmental perspectives into account, these guidelines clearly spell out what we must be done to move forward with you. The guidelines outline the orientation of diverse CSR activities within the supply chain as well as points requiring compliance based on the basic thinking expressed in the azbil Group's Philosophy and the Guiding Principles for azbil Group Business.

We hope you will understand the guidelines’ intent and ask you to practice and promote actions and activities in accordance with them.

If you would like to view this in PDF format, you can download it here.
Details are also available on the following website.

CSR Procurement Guidelines for the azbil Group Third edition, issued in June 2023

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The azbil Group considers the following to be areas for CSR procurement.
*Please click on the links in the table or below the table to see the details for each target area.

Main category Intermediate category Subcategory
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(Environmental supply chain) 		Climate change
(Greenhouse gases, energy)
  • Initiatives to combat climate change (including CO2/GHG emissions)
Pollution and resources
(Air, wastewater, hazardous waste, waste reduction, raw materials, etc.)
  • Green procurement
  • Management of chemical substances in products
  • Reduction of resource use
  • Reduction of industrial waste
  • Recycling
  • Promotion of renewable energy use
Water security and risk
  • Reduction of water use and wastewater emissions
Biodiversity
  • Preservation of biodiversity
Environmental management
  • Environmental management activities in conformity with ISO 14001
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(Social supply chain)		 Labor practices
  • Abolition of child labor and forced labor, reduction of overwork
  • Prohibition of discrimination, equal opportunity
  • Promotion of diversity
Health and safety
  • Health and safety management
  • Work-style reform, work-life balance
Human rights
  • Respect for basic human rights (including exclusion of antisocial forces and response to conflict minerals)
Community (regional society)
  • Regional promotion, activities tied to social contribution
Quality, customers
  • Observance of fair commercial transactions (including legal compliance)
  • Quality management

The CSR Procurement Guidelines outline in specific terms the actions and activity that we would like to see from our business partners in each of these target areas.

*1. SDGs: Sustainable Development Goals
The SDGs were incorporated into the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which was adopted unanimously by member states at a United Nations Summit in September 2015. The SDGs consist of 17 goals and 169 targets that aim for a sustainable and better world by 2030.

*2. CSR: corporate social responsibility
CSR refers to corporate action through which a company takes responsibility for the impacts of its activities with an eye to living in harmony with society and environment and achieving sustainable growth. It is used to describe how a company should act to earn the trust of the various stakeholders surrounding it.
Generally speaking, CSR refers to voluntary activities in areas that are not purely financial, such as legal compliance, consumer protection, environmental protection, labor rights, human rights, and contribution to local communities.