Supply Chain Management

Basic Approach
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Basic Approach

Nikon considers suppliers to be important partners helping us create and provide products and solutions useful for the world. Based on this belief, we strive to deepen mutual understanding and build trust with these procurement partners, and seek co-existence and co-prosperity. We established the Nikon Basic Procurement Policy based on this approach to ensure honest and fair procurement of materials.

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Nikon Basic Procurement Policy

The Nikon Group's Supply Chain

The Nikon Group has approximately 2,590 direct procurement partners globally. Beyond them, there are numerous Tier 2 and Tier 3 suppliers from whom we procure raw materials, electronic components, mechanical components, units, and others.

The Nikon Group's overseas production sites hire employees locally and actively procure raw materials and components from the countries and regions where the sites operate to ensure quality (Q), cost (C), and delivery (D). We require our local procurement partners to comply with various standards and provide assistance for improvement. In this way, we work from a long-term perspective to enhance our procurement partners' corporate capabilities and to generate new business opportunities for them.

Supply Chain Overview and Risks at Each Stage

Strategy

The Nikon Group builds frameworks and systems that can respond flexibly and appropriately to rapidly changing business environments, social issues, and various supply chain risks based on strong relationships of trust with procurement partners.

Specifically, we evaluate procurement partner risks to minimize supply chain disruptions during emergencies and to ensure a swift response and business continuity. We strive to strengthen resilience to risks by assessing business continuity planning systems and supporting partners with insufficient systems.

The Group also conducts procurement partner assessments through questionnaires to identify, prevent, and mitigate social risks in the supply chain related to human rights, labor conditions, occupational health and safety, and environmental considerations. We conduct second-party audits for procurement partners identified as high risk and encourage corrective action by assisting such partners in making improvements. In addition, the Nikon Group establishes and operates effective remediation mechanisms to enable prompt and appropriate responses when risks materialize.

These efforts continuously support the development of a sound and sustainable supply chain. The Nikon Group achieves sustainable business operations by strengthening supply chain stability, creating social value, and fulfilling corporate responsibilities. These efforts further strengthen trust among stakeholders and customers and enhance brand value.

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Sustainable Procurement Briefings

The Nikon Group holds briefings every year to gain procurement partner understanding of Nikon Group procurement quality management and ESG-related policies and approaches.

The Sustainable Procurement Briefing met four times in fiscal year 2025 between November 19 and 21 in an online format for procurement partners we engage with at our Japan, China, and Thailand locations. A total of 1,266 participants representing 1,034 companies attended the briefing, with topics related to BCP enhancement, green procurement, and human rights gaining the highest interest from participants.

We also took time to recognize procurement partners who contributed to ESG and quality management through flexibility, promptness, and resiliency.

Meetings With Procurement Partners

The Nikon Group believes in close communication with procurement partners and the importance of strengthening mutual relationships. To this end, we invite the representatives of approximately 160 major procurement partner companies in Japan and overseas to our annual meetings with procurement partners. These meetings report on Nikon's business environment, provide an overview of our business operations, and convey a message from the president to ensure communication with top management and strengthen relationships.

The relationships we strive to build extend beyond those between the Nikon Group and procurement partners. Beginning in 2025, the Nikon Group also took on a hub role, creating opportunities for collaboration among procurement partners and helping strengthen supply chain resilience across the Group.