In the spirit of facilitating global sustainability, ADATA strives to work with local suppliers and implements the principle of localized procurement, while working with suppliers to jointly develop a sustainable supply chain.

ADATA actively establishes stable partnerships with suppliers and informs them of relevant commitments and requirements to ensure the quality of the supply chain and products, while requiring them to sign relevant commitments and statements, to ensure that they meet the relevant quality standards (RoHS/REACH, ISO 9001, etc.). The Company also conduct regular supplier assessments and evaluations. They need to meet the criteria for such assessments and evaluations, including statements and declarations on "quality, cost, technology, delivery time, and environmental friendliness", to become qualified suppliers of the Company.

With the diversified business, ADATA is clearly aware of the impact of long-distance transportation on the environment and has chosen local supply chains and pays attention to the maintenance of local relationships. About 85% of the Company’s suppliers are local ones, so as to achieve a balance between the environment, economy, and society.

Localization of procurement

Percentage of local suppliers

Green supply chain management

1.	Supplier sustainability audit:
The Company regularly audits key suppliers and high-risk ones to ensure the implementation of sustainable operations of the supply chain.
2.	Supplier annual evaluation and supplier conference:
In addition to discussing production-related needs, the annual supplier evaluation and supplier conference by the Company raises suppliers’ awareness of the five major indicators: quality, technology, delivery time, cost, and environmental friendliness, and informs them of what targets they need to achieve.

Supplier sustainability assessment

ADATA actively establishes stable partnerships with suppliers, and conduct regular supplier assessments and evaluations to ensure they meet the relevant quality standards.

Supply chain management

The mining and trading of conflict minerals financially supported armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries, and resulted in major bloody (armed) conflicts and human rights violations in the region. Therefore, the US Congress stipulated the Dodd-Frank Act in 2011 and formulated a law regarding conflict minerals in Section 1502, requiring a declaration of the use of any conflict minerals (3TG), including gold (Au), tantalum (Ta), tin (Sn), and tungsten (W), in products or manufacturing processes, to disclose whether any conflict mineral produced from DRC or adjoining countries are used.

To fulfill customer and legal expectations and to implement corporate social responsibilities (CSR), ADATA is committed to managing its supply chain, by promoting the Requirement to Prohibit the Use of Conflict Mineral and regularly tracing the sources of gold (Au), tantalum (Ta), tin (Sn), and tungsten (W) contents in the products, to ensure that the use of 3TG minerals in ADATA products are not from the conflict mineral mining area, thereby thoroughly implementing CSR.

Conflict Minerals Statement

We do our utmost to strictly manage our supply chain and promote the non-use of conflict minerals' by regularly tracing the sources of Gold (Au), Tantalum (Ta), Tin (Sn) and Tungsten (W) contained in our product.

Green Purchasing(Global)

Green Purchasing