Fujitsu Group's Green Purchasing Activities

The Fujitsu Group recognizes that environmental protection is one of its crucial management priorities, and systematically and consecutively conducts environmental activities throughout its entire business domain. Similarly in material procurement, the Fujitsu Group is aiming to reduce environmental loads in the upstream areas of its value chain through its business partners by promoting green purchasing activities. Since these activities were started in 2001, the Fujitsu Group has been considering both regulatory compliance of supplies and business partners' promotion of environmental activities, both of which are important. Therefore, the Fujitsu Group is working to promote the establishment of the Environmental Management System (EMS) at business partners, and after that, eliminating restricted chemical substances completely, responding to trends of legal restrictions and establishment of the Chemical substances Management System (CMS) related to them. Moreover, reducing CO2 emissions, preserving biodiversity, and conserving water resources have been added as themes of its activities one after another, considering the trends of international environmental issues. Furthermore, the Fujitsu Group not only requires these activities to be conducted, but also supports business partners in various ways and considers that promoting activities in cooperation with business partners is important. This paper introduces the main activities of the Fujitsu Group's green purchasing.