Social Activities
Relationship with Suppliers
Through strong partnerships based on relationships of mutual trust, Alpine hopes to prosper hand in hand with its suppliers.
Purchasing Policies
In order to fulfill its social responsibility, Alpine makes sure that the following four policies are followed in our everyday purchasing activities.
Alpine's Purchasing Policies
Communicating Business Conditions to Business Partners
Alpine organizes briefing sessions on its business conditions in order to ensure that its purchasing policies are fully communicated to its business partners and that strong partnerships are forged. Organized biannually in Japan (spring and fall), and once (annually) outside of Japan, such briefings serve as an opportunity to update business partners on production and sales conditions and explain Alpine's purchasing policies, thereby deepening mutual understanding.
Partners who have made considerable contributions in terms of product quality, cost, delivery, and VE (Value Engineering) suggestions are commended with awards such as the Best Supplier Award and VE Excellence Award.
Briefing on business conditions
Promoting Green Purchasing
Alpine aims to achieve a 100 % green purchasing ratio on a global basis, by giving top priority to eco-friendly purchasing activities.
In Fiscal 2007, we invited 130 overseas suppliers to an Alpine Green Purchasing Standards briefing session in a bid to have all of our business units certified to ISO 14001 environmental management standards by the end of Fiscal 2008, as we plan to roll out our eco-friendly supply chain.
ISO 14001 Acquisition by Suppliers
Vital to assuring
the quality of our products
East Japan Semiconductor Marketing & Sales Office
Semiconductor Company, Matsushita
Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Director
Megumu Ozawa
Alpine has been a leader in introducing a "green purchasing" policy and developing lead-free components. Whenever new laws and regulations concerning green purchasing and RoHS have been enacted, Alpine has always responded in a prompt manner. Such high quality requirements have been a major inspiration for our efforts to improve the quality of our vehicle components.
