Relationship with Suppliers

Manufacturing superior pharmaceutical products is only attained by cooperation with business partners in various areas; including suppliers of raw materials, facilities and equipment.
Takeda ensures that the "Guidance for Purchasing Affairs" is fully adhered to by all staff related to purchasing activities to facilitate smooth purchasing operation and enhance its function.

The "Guidance for Purchasing Affairs," which was prepared based on the "Basic Purchasing Policy" in consideration of CSR requires staff to be fair, impartial and sincere when working with business partners in accordance with the "Takeda Code of Compliance Standards" in order to establish and maintain a "healthy, fair and impartial partnership."
Takeda is currently promoting various initiatives to become a "R&D-Driven, World-Class Pharmaceutical Company."

In the area of purchase, it also strives unceasingly to add substance to the "World-wide Optimal Purchase"; based on marketing research and information collated on a global scale. This is in line with the procurement principle of "ensuring a stable flow of quality materials by sourcing from the global market and contributing to society through purchasing activities."
Takeda conducts periodic assessments of suppliers based on the in-house fair and ensures reasonable standards to maintain steady cooperation with desirable business partners from the perspectives of technology, quality and society.

Our Concept Regarding Company-wide Puchasing Activities

In accordance with Takeda-ism, Takeda has continually been conducting purchasing activities of raw materials and related equipment in compliance with all relevant laws an regulations, including the antitrust laws and laws for the prevention of payment arrears to subcontractors’ charges, etc. and with the "Guidance for Purchasing Affairs," which describes the implementation of sincere purchasing activities as a concept of our purchasing activities philosophy. Consequently, Takeda endeavors to establish and maintain a responsible partnership with suppliers based on the concepts of fairness and sincerity. In addition, in December 2006, Takeda instituted the "Departmental Purchase Criteria" and the "Company-wide Guidance for Purchasing Affairs" with the aim of ensuring the further implementation of compliance for the purchase of indirect materials and services as well as for raw materials and related equipment.
Takeda introduced a system that designates and registers employees in charge of purchasing activities in each department. The Company has established various approaches to ensure the definitive enhancement of compliance, including training regarding purchasing activities by external instructors that is regularly conducted for those designated and registered employees.

Purchasing Activities Based on The Partnership

In the pharmaceutical industry, it is especially important, as compared to other industries with many suppliers, to establish business "partnerships" with relatively limited number of suppliers capable of providing high-quality raw materials and ingredients, of maintaining superior facilities on a continuous and stable basis, and of conforming to the stringent manufacturing regulations of Japan, the U.S.A. and the E.U. applicable to pharmaceutical products. Therefore, Takeda implements comprehensive assessments of suppliers, which are designed to evaluate and confirm their management system, including quality, GMP and ability to meet delivery dates, etc., as well as their business continuity plan and commitments toward CSR.
Alternatively, Takeda also receives CSR surveys from suppliers regarding our stance toward CSR, the environment and employees. We sincerely cooperate with them to strive to establish an excellent and effective partnership with such suppliers whom we understand and respect their stance and view on CSR through the survey requests.