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ASUS acknowledges that sustainability not only concerns the organization
per se but also covers the suppliers in the entire value chain during the life cycle of
a product, including procurement of down-stream raw materials, production, and
use of products and waste of products. With respect to the problems seen at each
stage, including the stage of procurement of raw materials, such as mineral conflicts,
use of hazardous substances correspondent to the stage of production, laborers’
human rights, and electronic waste goods control at the stage of waste of goods,
ASUS defined different countermeasures to be taken by the suppliers, ranging from
the ISO under the PDCA framework constructed by the organization internally to
international organizations attended by the Company externally to integrate
external resources to control and manage the risk jointly.
In order to ensure that suppliers and contractors meet ASUS management
standards, ASUS will perform the Quality Business Review (QBR) on key and new
suppliers each year, including written reviews and annual audits. Then, audits on
suppliers and contractors who pass the QBR will be conducted in accordance with
such international standards as QC080000 and ISO 9001 and ASUS technical
standards, and in terms of three major aspects, including QSA (Quality System
Audit), QPA (Quality Process Audit) and GA (ASUS HSF green parts recognition,
Hazardous Substance Free), in order to practice the concept of pursuit of perfect
quality in ASUS green supply chain management.
In addition to implementing ASUS human rights policy, ASUS also hopes
that its suppliers protect laborers’ human rights together. Since it enrolled into
EICC in 2014, ASUS has been dedicated to boosting the supply chain to fulfill its
corporate social liability, including respect toward laborers and human rights,
creation of a health and safe working environment, and promotion of environmental
protection production process. The Company established the supply chain CSR
audit standards, in order to ensure that the OEM, which the Company works with,
would fulfill the requirements about protection of labors and occupational safety by
virtue of the routine on-site audit to be conducted each year, based on the name list
of qualified suppliers.
The Company also organized the general assembly and educational
training program for suppliers and established the e-portal, including Global Supply
Chain Management Portal (SCM) and Supplier Relationship Management Portal
(SRM), to communicate ASUS sustainability supply chain management
requirements and proceed with recognition and management of compliance of spare
parts/finished goods, so as to upgrade the suppliers’ ability to deal with ASUS’s
supply chain management requirements.
4. Care for employees
ASUS adheres to the management philosophy for “training, cherishing and
caring employees to enable ASUS folks to exert their potential to the utmost”.