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TESCO
Supplier Website: http://www.tescoplc.com/plc/corporate_responsibility/resp_buying_selling/suppliers/ (2011: not available) Contacts: http://www.tesco.com/talkingtesco/ (2011: not available) Summary: Tesco

is proof of the good a little dressing up can do. The world's third-largest grocer runs some 2,100 supermarkets, supercenters, and convenience shops in the UK (where it's the #1 retailer), 1,600 stores in Ireland, Central Europe, and Asia, and 100 Fresh & Easy stores in the US. Built on the "pile it high, sell it cheap" creed of founder Sir Jack Cohen, Tesco abandoned its discount format, with its down-market image, for a variety of dressier midmarket formats. Its operations include convenience and gasoline retailing (Tesco Express), small urban stores (Tesco Metro), superstores (Tesco Extra), and financial services (Tesco Personal Finance).
Partnership Guidelines:

We work with a wide range of organizations to improve our CR performance, share data, knowledge and ideas and deliver specific programs. They include:

British Retail Consortium Business in the Community Cancer Research UK Carbon Disclosure Project The Climate Group Confederation of British Industry Ethical Trading Initiative Food and Drink Federation Forum for the Future FTSE4Good Index Gangmasters Licensing Working Group Institute of Grocery Distribution London Benchmarking Group Marie Curie Cancer Care Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (SEDEX)

Lawsuits: Best Practices: It adopted the concept of regional suppliers which supplies products at a very less price. http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS153150+08-Jan-2008+BW20080108 [Lakshmi: Tesco implements Eqos supplier management solutions.] (2011: not available)

Vendor Recognition: Company Recognition: http://www.sci.manchester.ac.uk/ the SCI is focusing on understanding and changing consumer behavior, and identifying new technologies and innovations across the supply chain. Miscellaneous: Tesco.com is Britain's leading Internet delivery service. Tesco is proof of the good a little dressing up can do. The world's third-largest grocer runs some 2,100 supermarkets, supercenters, and convenience shops in the UK (where it's the #1 retailer), 1,600 stores in Ireland, Central Europe, and Asia, and 100 Fresh & Easy stores in the US. Built on the "pile it high, sell it cheap" creed of founder Sir Jack Cohen, Tesco abandoned its discount format, with its down-market image, for a variety of dressier midmarket formats. Its operations include convenience and gasoline retailing (Tesco Express), small urban stores (Tesco Metro), superstores (Tesco Extra), and financial services (Tesco Personal Finance). Tesco.com is Britain's leading Internet delivery service. {Mudit} Tesco use of inhouse ERP http://www.leanuk.org/downloads/general/lean_rapid_respose_logistics.pdf LHR Evaluation Code of Conduct Evaluation: Contracts Evaluation: Supplier Monitoring/Evaluations http://blog.procurementleaders.com/procurement-blog/2009/2/24/tescos-supply-chain-rigour.html [Lakshmi: Mentions about audit process that the suppliers undergo] Labor related lawsuits Community Involvement Tracking Mechanisms Miscellaneous {Mudit} Human rights definedno child labour mentioned http://www.tescoplc.com/plc/corporate_responsibility/good_jobs/human_rights/ (2011: not available) Environmental Evaluation Code of Conduct

In 2009, the company has set ourselves the ambitious target of reducing carbon emissions in our supply chain by 30% by 2020.

http://www.tescoplc.com/corporate-responsibility/our-community-promises/caringfor-the-environment/climate-change/supply-chain/
The company has considered suppliers into the environmental responsibility program

http://www.tescoplc.com/corporate-responsibility/our-community-promises/buyingand-selling-products-responsibly/supplier-academy/
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1. TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
SRM Evaluation Supplier Website: Not Found Contacts Not Found Summary Not Found Partnership Guidelines: http://wpl.ext.ti.com/Shared%20Documents/Texas%20Instruments%20Supplier%20Performance%20Expe ctations.pdf Very detailed information on expectation from suppliers in terms of cost, quality, environment etc. Gives the performance metrics that they will be measured against within each of the categories. Has a measurement scorecard and is looking for continuous improvement. http://wpl.ext.ti.com/supplierquality/TISQEM.pdf Detailed supplier quality guidelines expectations and requirements. (2011: not available) Lawsuits: Not Found Best Practices: Not Found Vendor Recognition: http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/appliedmaterials/index.jsp?epicontent=GENERIC&newsId=20050519005226&ndmHsc=v2*A1167656400000*B1178676791000*C410249159 9000*DgroupByDate*J2*N1002992&newsLang=en&beanID=547561197&viewID=news_view 2004 award to supplier Applied Materials. TI's Supplier Excellence Award honors firms whose dedication and commitment in supplying products and services meet TI's high standards for excellence. Recipients are an elite group of suppliers chosen for their exemplary performance in the areas of cost, environmental responsibility, technology, responsiveness, assurance of supply, and quality. (2011: not available) http://www.photomask.com/news/recent_news/080507_ti_award.html 2008 May Toppan Printing's Semiconductor Solutions Division announced today that it has received a Texas Instruments (TI) "Supplier Excellence Award," TI's highest recognition of performance by its global suppliers. (2011: not available) http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS154827+23-Apr-2008+PRN20080423 More supplier awards and minority supplier awards and stuff. http://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/b/analogwire/archive/2010/10/27/siemens-names-ti-top-supplier-what-canti-do-for-you.aspx In 2010 Siemens awarded TI as its best supplier worldwide. Company Recognition: Not Found Miscellaneous: http://www.informationweek.com/780/epservice2.htm

Article from 2000 April mentions the following In January 1999, Texas Instruments installed an SAP enterprise resource planning system to handle direct-material and capital-equipment purchases. Rather than burden the SAP system with large volumes of maintenance, repair, and operating (MRO) transactions, Daniel decided to have these transactions routed to an Intelisys IEC application running on a Windows NT server. Texas Instruments' purchasing department procures more than $4.5 billion annually in three categories: direct materials such as silicon and gold wire; capital equipment, including production machinery; and MRO items such as office supplies and computer equipment. Of the three, MRO goods and services account for 80% of the transactions managed by the company's purchasing department. Texas Instruments established three goals for its E-procurement system: reduce the company's supplier base so the purchasing department could concentrate on its relations with suppliers rather than on processing transactions; leverage cost savings by dealing directly with suppliers; and reduce the overall operational cost of purchasing. http://www.purchasing.com/article/CA6467745.html Program started in 2003 Negotiating with suppliers in various global regions, however, can bring unexpected challenges that can sabotage negotiations and relationshipseven those that are in the hands of the most domestically skilled and knowledgeable procurement professionals. Understanding this, Texas Instruments has adopted a comprehensive, yet easy-to-implement, program designed to train procurement professionals and others in the organization, on a worldwide basis, to understand, respect, and appropriately respond to cultural differences in the countries where they are doing business. http://www.viadeo.com/en/profile/didier.terral Manager, Strategic Sourcing LHR Evaluation Code of Conduct Evaluation: Could not find a supplier code of conduct just a letter to the suppliers. http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/investor/gov/EthicalExpectationsofourSuppliers.shtml Contracts Evaluation: Not Found Supplier Monitoring/Evaluations Not Found Labor related lawsuits Not Found Community Involvement http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/csr/downloads/corp_citz_reports/csr_corpcitz_summ_2007.pdf Community involvement in India, China , Philippines etc page 11 Tracking Mechanisms Not Found

Miscellaneous http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/csr/downloads/corp_citz_reports/csr_corpcitz_summ_2007.pdf Page 9 mentions that in 2008 150 suppliers will be asked to self monitor and report labor compliance. Environmental Evaluation http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/csr/environment/index.shtml Code of Conduct http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/csr/downloads/TI_ESH_Policy_Principles.pdf It is a document for EHS sustainability, including TI's Chemical and Material Control Specification for suppliers. Sustainability Efforts http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/csr/company/sustainability.shtml believe responsible, sustainable operations can meet current resource needs without compromising the needs of future generations. We work toward sustainability by reducing waste and inefficiency in operations, including our manufacturing facilities, office buildings and distribution activities. Back to the Top

1. THYSSENKRUPP
SRM Evaluation Supplier Website: https://suppliermanagement.thyssenkrupp.info/web/xcitec/selfregistration Contacts purchasing@thyssenkrupp.com In addition more contact details for different groups within the company can be found at http://www.thyssenkrupp.com/en/einkauf/ansprechpartner.html (2011: not available) Summary https://sourcing.thyssenkrupp.info/lvportal/common/default.jsp The website gives a listing of the active RFQs and all the new RFQs that started this week. They have videos to help the suppliers navigate through the process. The guided tour shows status of bids, earlier bids accepted from the supplier and so on in addition to managing the process of keeping supplier guidelines up to date and so on. http://www.thyssenkrupp.com/en/einkauf/index.html Gives the strategic sourcing process and mentions the category management as well. The RFQ listing is by categories. Mentions the total spend. http://www.thyssenkrupp.com/en/einkauf/e_procurement.html Highlights the strategic sourcing and catalog ordering systems that are being used by Thyssenkrupp group of companies. (2011: not available) http://www.thyssenkrupp.com/en/einkauf/catalog_ordering.html Over 244 suppliers are integrated into the catalog ordering process, with over 3 million products being offered. The creation of the catalogs by the suppliers is being facilitated by the use of the web-based self service (Content-factory) (2011: not available) http://www.thyssenkrupp.com/en/einkauf/strategic_sourcing.html Strategic sourcing module with very detailed terms and conditions.sourcing is done for most of the companies within the group, thereby increasing the efficiencies of the process. (2011: not available) http://www.thyssenkrupp.com/documents/einkauf/General_terms_and_conditions_for_suppliers_en.P DF Talks about the portal setup for communications with the suppliers being used for supplier evaluations as well. (2011: not available) http://www.thyssenkrupp.com/en/einkauf/steuerung.html Talks about the management principles and organizational interplay of the various sourcing organizations with their motto being "as decentralized as possible, as centralized as necessary!" (2011: not available) http://www.thyssenkrupp.com/en/einkauf/lead_buyer_konzept.html Talks about the formation of Cross-segment teams are formed for each sourcing category (e.g. "Electronic components"). In dealings with business partners, the interests of each team are

represented by the respective lead buyer, who is generally the representative of the Group company with the highest individual requirements. (2011: not available) Partnership Guidelines: See above Lawsuits: Not found Best Practices: Vendor Recognition: Not found Company Recognition: https://steelnews.com/World/tabid/36/Cat/6/Doc/2589/Default.aspx ThyssenKrupp Steel chosen as GM supplier of the year (2007) Miscellaneous: http://www.thyssenkrupp.com/documents/investor/Finanzberichte/eng/ThyssenKrupp_2007_2008_AR .pdf Page 91 gives details on the different segments and changes between the years. http://www.thyssenkrupp.com/documents/investor/Finanzberichte/eng/ThyssenKrupp_2007_2008_AR .pdf Talks about the global supplier management tool that was used to assess 500 suppliers and talks about cross functional teams assess the suppliers and jointly define development measures. Mentions the supplier assessments are saved in the database with access to all companies in the Group. LHR Evaluation Code of Conduct Evaluation: Could not find specific conduct of conduct to suppliers other than terms and conditions. Contracts Evaluation: Supplier Monitoring/Evaluations Labor related lawsuits Community Involvement Tracking Mechanisms Miscellaneous Environmental Evaluation http://www.thyssenkrupp.com/en/engagement/umwelt.html Code of Conduct Sustainability Efforts http://www.thyssenkrupp.com/en/nachhaltigkeit/klimaschutz_und_energieeffizienz.html Climate change and energy efficiency are fully integrated into the company's business strategy. Back to the Top

1. TOSHIBA
SRM Evaluation Supplier Website: Could not find onebut evidence that it exists below. Contacts http://www.toshiba.co.jp/procure/en/ipo/index.htm Details of all the different procurement offices for Toshiba across the World and what they procure. Summary Partnership Guidelines: http://www.toshiba.co.jp/procure/pdf/en_procurementpolicy.pdf Gives details on the sourcing policy and expectations on conduct of the suppliers. Lawsuits: Best Practices: Vendor Recognition: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_August_29/ai_64998299/ 2000 : Amkor is the only package assembler among nearly 700 Toshiba suppliers to receive the award for 1999. Amkor was singled out for its work on assembling the sophisticated game station package. Toshiba Semiconductor Company President Yasuo Morimoto presented the award to Amkor officials. Four other companies received similar Toshiba awards for supplying raw material and equipment. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_July_12/ai_n26922111/ 2006: To ModusLink The award was one of only three granted and was presented at Toshiba Information Equipment (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd.'s Bi-Annual Supplier Event in June 2006. http://www.lamrc.com/lamrcKOREA/newsroom.htm 2008: Lam gets multiple awards from Toshiba Company Recognition: Miscellaneous: http://www.toshiba.co.jp/csr/en/soc/all.htm#SOC01_4 Preference is to be given to suppliers that are working close with the corporate social responsibility requirements of Toshiba. http://www.toshiba.co.jp/procure/en/green/index.htm Toshiba is big into being green within the supply chain http://www.toshiba.co.jp/csr/en/report/pdf/report08_05.pdf Procurement details and process and expectations mentioned in the annual report as well. http://www.i2.com/assets/pdf/CSS_SEM_toshiba_css7138.pdf Mentions Toshiba implemented i2 for spend optimization to help manage its supplier relationship. As well as i2 strategic sourcing and i2 negotiate both to be used to source direct materials, information gathering and decision making processes.Also mentions this is helping the company create a supplier database to help with the selection of suppliers and be accessible to purchasing folks all over. The eventual goal is to be able to use the information collected to create a balance scorecard http://www.kinaxis.com/downloads/customer_spotlight/spotlight-toshiba.html

Toshiba Europe selected RapidResponse because it could seamlessly consolidate demand data from multiple sources, while also offering users the ability to easily work with the data to develop and analyze various supply plans in real time. Despite its structured PSI process, RapidResponse enables Toshiba to be a more responsive organization, providing it with a level of flexibility not achieved before given its fixed planning schedules and procedures. The implementation time and costs were low compared to the other solutions considered, and RapidResponse integrates fully with its Oracle ERP and product roadmap systems. With a user friendly and familiar Excel-type interface, no extensive user training was required, so the time-to-value was compelling.

LHR Evaluation Code of Conduct Evaluation: http://www.toshiba.co.jp/procure/pdf/en_procurementpolicy.pdf Very general mention of the labor and human rights, but not specific to the ILO core conventions. http://www.toshiba.co.jp/csr/jp/procure/pdf/Toshiba_sc_csr_guidebook_en0806.pdf Mentions the ILO conventions and the suppliers need to confirm in greater detail. This is also created to help the suppliers implement similar programs within their supply chain. Contracts Evaluation: Supplier Monitoring/Evaluations http://www.toshiba.co.jp/csr/en/procure/index.htm The section CSR Procurement Checks and Audits the following is stated. We also monitor the status of CSR management of our ongoing suppliers at manufacturing sites at the time of quality audits and request improvements and provide guidance as necessary. For new procurement transactions, we confirm conformity with Toshiba Group's procurement and selection policies not only with respect to the goods and services procured, but also suppliers' manufacturing sites, management systems and the state of their operations. Since fiscal 2006, Toshiba has conducted CSR surveys of suppliers, when we surveyed 100 suppliers whose transactions with Toshiba Group constitute a high proportion, adding human rights, labor conditions, and occupational health and safety to the previous survey categories of quality, the environment, and information security. In fiscal 2007, we conducted a survey of 265 principal ongoing suppliers in Asia (excluding Japan), covering human rights, labor conditions, and occupational health and safety. Summary of the results is given on the website as well covering violations found and the training that is performed to help the suppliers understand what is required from them. Labor related lawsuits Community Involvement http://www.toshiba.co.jp/csr/en/social/index.htm Works closely with the community in which there are operations. Tracking Mechanisms Miscellaneous http://www.toshiba.co.jp/csr/en/procure/index.htm

A dedicated CSR organization established in April 2007 within the Corporate Procurement Division is working to ensure fulfillment of CSR in Toshiba Group's procurement and on the part of suppliers. http://www.toshiba.co.jp/csr/en/management/management2008.htm#PF-PROCURE Gives expectations from suppliers over the next year. Environmental Evaluation

http://www.toshiba.co.jp/env/en/index.htm
Code of Conduct

http://www.toshiba.co.jp/env/en/products/pdf/greenprocurement_e_en.pdf
Sustainability Efforts

http://www.toshiba.co.jp/pc_env/eco/lca.html#comm5
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1. TOYSRUS
SRM Evaluation Supplier Website: https://vendorconnect.toysrus.com/vendorextranet/ Contacts Al Kaufman al.kaufman@toysrus.com Summary Supplier website gives very clear cut information on what is required to become a supplier of the organization and expectations from the suppliers. Uses an EDI system. Toysrus is no longer a public entity but is owned by a private group of investment firms. Partnership Guidelines: Has a very detailed supplier partnership guideline that tells suppliers what is expected of them. Following the code is mandatory for all suppliers. All suppliers need to use the UCC for barcodes for uniformity and ease of use. Lawsuits: Several class action lawsuits, lawsuits from competitors and the FTC Best Practices: Vendor Recognition: NA Company Recognition: NA Miscellaneous: http://www.simplyhired.com/job-id/2gmqb3hjne/manager-strategic-jobs/ [Job description for a strategic sourcing manager to execute on categories of spend, responsibilities include spend management, market intelligence , on-boarding of supplier etc] (2011: not available) http://www.allbusiness.com/company-activities-management/operations-purchasing/6108067-1.html [Article dated August 2001: PurchaseSoft implemented by Toysrus for improved supplier relationship management, inventory management and process for strategic sourcing implementation for all nonmerchandise spending.] http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/archives/files/115.pdf [Toysrus forces its suppliers to stop selling to wholesale clubs under the pain of losing toysrus as a customer using its category management structure to orchestrate a horizontal cartel.] (2011: not available) LHR Evaluation Code of Conduct Evaluation: https://vendorconnect.toysrus.com/vendorextranet/public_content/dsp_becoming_a_vendor.cfm

[Meets all the guidelines mentioned in the ILO framework except for the fact that all children below the age of 18 should be stopped from the worst forms of labor. All second tier suppliers also have to follow the guidelines that suppliers have to] Contracts Evaluation: [No information about whether it is part of the contracts but based on the code of conduct would say it is strongly enforced.] Supplier Monitoring/Evaluations [The code of conduct mentions that supplier auditing shall be done by a 3 rd party monitor who will be allowed to make both announced as well as unannounced audits. Results shall be mentioned back to the supplier by toysrus.] http://www.intertek-labtest.com/newsroom/latestnews/Toysruspartner/?lang=en [Intertek to do supplier auditing thereby pooling the auditing that is going on and making sure that the suppliers are not being auditied over and over again by companies] Labor related lawsuits NA Community Involvement NA Tracking Mechanisms NA Miscellaneous http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=1861 [Toysrus is calling for convergence on supplier audits as multiple audits are leading to inefficiencies in the supply chain. Toysrus uses the SA8000 social standard for suppliers] (2011: not available) Environmental Evaluation Code of Conduct

https://vendorconnect.toysrus.com/vendorextranet/index.cfm

The Code of Conduct addresses child labor, forced labor, worker environment, working conditions, discrimination, wages and hours, and freedom of association. Compliance is mandatory for all Vendors. Sustainability Efforts Back to the Top