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With Our Suppliers

Akebono is striving to maintain and enhance relationships with its suppliers.

Rooting Our Global Operations in Local Communities

To survive amid the global market, Akebono recognizes that strengthening SGQCDDM* is essential. We believe that our ability to satisfy these requirements is largely dependent on mutual understanding and relationships of trust with our local suppliers. Keeping high regard for human rights in mind, we put great emphasis on maintaining robust communications within local supply chains, as well as understanding and respecting local cultures and value systems in the areas that we expand into. Moreover, when selecting our local suppliers, we also give consideration to compliance and work to achieve the sustainable and mutual development of the Company and its suppliers.

  • * S: Safety; G: Global; Q: Quality; C: Cost; DD: Delivery and Development, or Differentiation through Development; and M: Management

Establishing Supplier Whistleblower Hotline on the Company's Website

With the aim of building and maintaining favorable partnerships with all of its suppliers, in fiscal 2013 Akebono established a “Supplier Whistleblower Hotline.”* Whenever a complaint from a supplier is received, the secretariat of the Compliance Committee will address the problem and take necessary steps to ensure that the problem is settled at an early stage and that preemptive countermeasures are in place to detect and prevent similar problems from recurring. Akebono will acknowledge any risk that arises in the course of its operations and address it by implementing appropriate measures. By doing so, we will strive to better fulfill our responsibility as a corporate citizen.

  • * The Supplier Whistleblower Hotline may be accessed from our corporate website.
    Please go to “Purchasing” under “Products & Technologies” and click on “Supplier Whistleblower Hotline” or click on the “Supplier Whistleblower Hotline” under “Contact Us.”