Samsung SDI

Year 2004 was the year when Samsung SDI began green procurement true to its name. In the beginning the company investigated basic environmental management capabilities of suppliers and harmful sub-stance use practices. In 2005 Samsung SDI already defined environmental management levels of over 600 Korean and foreign suppliers, and succeeded in identifying RoHS material contents in parts and materials supplied by them and reduced to levels defined by the regulations.

Now green procurement is one of the keys to procurement activities of Samsung SDI. From September 2005, suppliers entered environmental data of materials to supply in MegaSTEP, a purchase portal system.

Samsung SDI began the Large and SME Green Partnership project with the support from the Ministry of Knowledge Economy in May 2004 and has executed tasks such as supporting SMEs in establishing an environment management system, and educating SMEs on cleaner production, energy audit, green purchase, building a system to deal with international environmental regulation, environment-related training and workshops by area and position, and establishing an environment communication system. In 2008, the project covered 31 suppliers and was spread to all of the domestic suppliers. The project was finished in October 2008, and the ministry evaluated the project as successfully completed.

Samsung SDI has introduced the S-Partner system to build sustainable partnerships with its suppliers. In 2008, it evaluated 107 suppliers and reflected the results in the year-end comprehensive evaluation of the suppliers. The S-Partner checklist, revised in 2007, again included the items on environment and society in 2008.

Documents like “The guideline for green procurement” for suppliers regarding Samsung SDI’s SCEM were uploaded in MegaSTEP system.