Pursuing CSR with suppliers
Honda has pursued CSR activities together with suppliers in accordance with the Honda Philosophy in areas such as safety, disaster prevention, compliance, environmental conservation, and QCD. In addition to these initiatives, we have published a series of Supplier CSR Guidelines that articulate considerations such as human rights and labor, asking suppliers to actively conduct CSR activities based on the same awareness as Honda. We also published a CSR Checklist that suppliers can apply to their own operations and those of secondary suppliers.
Procuring environmentally responsible materials and parts
Revising the Green Purchasing Guidelines
In January 2011, we revised the Honda Green Purchasing Guidelines, which serve to guide environmental conservation activities in the purchasing domain, in an effort to assess and reduce environmental impacts such as greenhouse gases throughout the product life cycle, including all domains of business partners' corporate activities. The revision seeks to move beyond direct suppliers by assessing and reducing environmental impacts throughout the supply chain, addressing operations by all business partners worldwide that provide materials and parts for Honda products through our global parts procurement operations. We began working immediately in January to share the new guidelines with business partners in Japan and overseas, and on May 23 we held a Green Purchasing Guidelines information meeting at our Aoyama Headquarters for environmental representatives from 218 business partners nationwide. Participants learned about Honda's approach concerning the monitoring and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the supply chain domain, ando about specific plans for the measuremend and reduction of emissions.
At a Honda Green Network Meeting held the same day to address business partners' energy and resource conservation activities, we worked to develop a shared understanding between Honda and its partners by providing concrete explanations of the Honda Group's environmental initiatives and efforts to reduce peak summer power use.
An information meeting was held on May 23, 2011, at the Aoyama Headquarters.
Launching reform of part distribution
In the area of parts distribution, we have also begun to develop an environmentally friendly distribution network designed to centralize parts distribution operations that had been carried out separately by individual suppliers by geographic area so that parts can be transported efficiently to Honda worksites in order to reduce CO2 emissions associated with parts distribution.
