Engaging business partners in sustainability

Historically, we have relied on our parent company to ensure the sustainability integrity of our international supply chain's largest components, Xerographic equipment (including parts and consumables) and paper. The former is manufactured by Fuji Xerox and Xerox, both UN Global Compact signatories and committed to high levels of transparency in respect of their business practices. Fuji Xerox Company Ltd signed the UN Global Compact in 2002, was a founding member of the Global Compact Japan Network Steering Committee in 2005 and regularly participates in UN international conferences to advance the work of the Global Compact. Our parent company implements policies and procedures to ensure that its requirements as a signatory are met, including capacity building at our production sites in China.

We have looked more closely at how we engage our other business partners on sustainability:

In 2006 / 2007 first steps were taken towards engaging our indirect Sales channel, our dealers, on which we plan to build further efforts;
We ask our international paper suppliers to sign statements of compliance with our sustainable paper policy;
2007/ 2008 will be the first year we extend our sustainable paper policy to other paper-based office materials such as business cards, office stationery and marketing collateral.

Toshio Arima, former President and current board director and executive advisor of Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., was appointed to the United Nations Global Compact Board by the United Nation’s Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on July 6, 2007. The Global Compact Board, comprising 20 members, was inaugurated in 2006 to provide ongoing strategic and policy advice for the initiative as a whole, and to make recommendations to the Global Compact Office, its participants and other stakeholders, in order to drive further continuity and development of the initiative. Arima earned his nomination from the governing committee of the Global Compact Japan Network for his aggressive efforts to promote CSR activities at Fuji Xerox, notably the development of the International Resource Recycling System and ethical sourcing.

To find out more you can download our full sustainability report here