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Sustainable Procurement Guidelines

To achieve the goal of sustainable procurement, Hitachi released the revised Hitachi Group Sustainable Procurement Guidelines in May 2025. The guidelines are a communication tool informing procurement partners about Hitachi Group initiatives.They describe Hitachi policies and initiatives related to sustainability, and specify points that also require compliance by procurement partners.

For details, please refer to Hitachi Group Sustainable Procurement Guidelines.

Digest Edition

Digest Edition Introductory Video

Hitachi Group　Sustainable Procurement Guidelines　Digest Edition Introductory Video - Hitachi

This is an introductory video about the Hitachi Group Sustainable Procurement Guidelines.
This video introduces the Hitachi Group’s corporate philosophy, its approach to sustainability, and key principles of sustainable procurement. It is divided into two sections: the first explains Hitachi Group Policies & Sustainability Activities, and the second outlines our Sustainable Procurement Guidelines, including key expectations for our procurement partners. For more detailed information, please refer to the full version of the guidelines.

Japanese / 日本語

Digest Edition PDF

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English

Japanese / 日本語

Chinese / 中文

Hitachi Group Sustainable Procurement Guidelines

The full guidelines are available (multilingual support). Please select a language.

Outline of Sustainable Procurement Guidelines

01

Hitachi Group
Policies &
Sustainability Activities

Purpose
Introduces Hitachi initiatives ​to provide background of Guidelines acknowledgement request
A）Hitachi Group Policies & Sustainability Activities
  1. Hitachi Group Identity
  2. Hitachi Group Code of Ethics and Business Conduct
  3. Hitachi Group Human Rights Policy(PDF format,236kBytes)
  4. Environmental Vision and Long-term Environmental Targets
B）Hitachi Group Procurement Policies
  1. Guidelines for Procurement Activities(PDF format,58.5kBytes)
  2. Hitachi Group’s policy for Responsible Supply Chain of Minerals

02

Hitachi Group
Procurement Partner
Code of Conduct

Purpose
Summarizes requirements from Hitachi Group to all procurement partners
Introduction
  • Compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations
  • Response to self-assessment questionnaires & accept on-site audit
  • Report any incompliances with this Code of Conduct immediately
  • Apply to all companies in the upstream of Hitachi’s supply chain
Body
  1. Labor
  2. Health & Safety
  3. Environment
  4. Ethics
  5. Product Quality and Safety
  6. Prevention of Personal and Confidential Information Leakage
  7. Management Systems

Hitachi Sustainability policies and activities in detail can be found here.