Working with our suppliers to equip society with ubiquitous broadband communications
To continue to provide customers with competitive, stateof the-art services at reasonable prices, the NTT Group considers it essential to introduce cost-effective new technologies and products on a timely basis. To that end, it has become increasingly important for us to accurately identify customer needs, establish good partnerships with suppliers, and work closely with them to equip society with ubiquitous broadband communications.
Green procurement policies that encourage all relevant parties to consider the impact of procured products on the environment are also indispensable.
To build trust-based, open partnerships with our suppliers, we established and published our Basic Procurement Policy in 1999. (See Basic Procurement Policy on the right.)
For the benefit of suppliers, we also post procurement information on our website, and have procurement contact points in North America and Europe as well as in Japan for fielding inquiries and providing guidance on procurement.
Basic Procurement Policy
When procuring products, NTT will:
- conduct its procurement in an open and transparent manner, taking into account its business needs;
- provide non-discriminatory and competitive opportunities to both domestic and foreign suppliers; and
- conduct global and market-driven procurement of competitive products that meet its business needs.
The NTT Group Guidelines for Green Procurement
These Guidelines represent the NTT Group's basic stance toward green procurement and set forth the general areas in which the NTT Group and its suppliers address environmental issues on a continuing basis.
International Procurement website
http://www.ntt.co.jp/ontime/index-e.html
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Implementation of the Basic Procurement Policy
To procure required products openly on the global market, NTT Communications in May 2008 drew up an internal manual for the concrete implementation of the following three basic procurement policies: (1) to purchase openly and transparently in keeping with its business requirements; (2) to give domestic and overseas vendors equal opportunities to compete for its business; (3) to use global standards and market principles to procure competitive services and products that meet its business needs. NTT Communications will continue to implement this policy while paying due attention to global and market trends, economy, and other factors.
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Developing common software to promote global mobile phone development
In April 2008, NTT DOCOMO started to develop an operator pack for FOMA handsets as a new common software package to boost the efficiency of FOMA development and enable more handset manufacturers to develop FOMA handsets and also market these handsets overseas.
The pack combines application software for implementing i-mode and other unique NTT DOCOMO services with a common globally compatible software platform. It will enable handset manufacturers to cut software development costs considerably by saving them the need to develop their own FOMA application software, an advantage likely to encourage more manufacturers to develop FOMA handsets. The global compatibility of the platform will also facilitate the development of phones that can be marketed overseas too, opening the way for Japanese handset manufacturers to enter the global market.
NTT DOCOMO is promoting the adoption of this operator pack to handset manufacturers as it intends to install the software in its mobile phones in the latter half of 2009.
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