Collaboration with Partner Companies

Basic Approach and Action Policy

Promoting Initiatives Together with Partner Companies

Companies provide their customers with various products and services. The ability to deliver consistent and high-quality services to customers requires close collaboration with various partner companies in the value chain of business activities.

　SCSK provides high-quality, safe, and reliable services by building long-lasting relationships with partner companies and establishing a sound value chain.

　In addition, working with our partner companies on various issues, we will continue to contribute to the growth of the IT industry and aim to implement well-being management by increasing the added value within the value chain and promoting various efforts, including working style reforms, health and productivity management activities, and sustainability management.

To consider these social responsibilities in its purchase activities, SCSK has established the “SCSK Group Supply Chain Sustainability Promotion Guidelines”

SCSK will continue to engage in sustainability activities together with its partner companies, to help the IT industry develop into an attractive industry that brings together excellent, talented human resources by working responsibly on social issues in Japan and overseas.

Purchasing Guidelines and Policy on the Qualification of Our Partner Companies

SCSK will conduct purchase activities in accordance with the Purchasing Guidelines below, based on the concept in the SCSK Group Supply Chain Sustainability Promotion Guidelines.

SCSK has also asked partner companies that share its mission of providing safe and secure IT services to make efforts in sustainability based on its purchasing policy.

Collaboration with Partners

SCSK announces and explains its policies through briefings, etc. to partner companies so that it can work with them on Sustainability in an integrated manner. SCSK is also working on monitoring, including field validation, to understand the status of efforts at partner companies.
To proceed with these initiatives, SCSK has identified areas to address together with its partner companies, in order to encourage a shared understanding with them.

Core Partner Conference

Core Partner Conference

SCSK designates main partner companies that help it achieve higher quality and productivity and engage in continuous and stable transactions as core partners. We are working to deepen engagement and implement additional measures to improve quality and expand business. At our annual Core Partner Conference, we share business plans with participating companies and gain their understanding regarding the direction of business. In 2022, we held a hybrid conference that combined remote and face-to-face elements on account of COVID-19 pandemic.

Long-lasting Relationships With Partners that Lead the IT Industry

Improving Quality and Productivity

Along with partner companies, SCSK has continued to work to improve quality and productivity over many years, and is moving forward with stable system development, maintenance and operation using the SCSK development standard（SE⁺）. We are also working with partner companies to leverage our proprietary Monozukuri innovation platform（S-Cred⁺）and achieve more advanced development and operation.

　Furthermore, by conducting project-based mutual evaluations and analyzing and using those evaluations, we and our partner companies are continuing to increase quality and productivity.

Working Style Reforms and Health and Productivity Management

Stressing working style reforms and health and productivity management in order to create an IT industry that attracts talent, SCSK works with its partner companies to create an environment in which organizations can achieve high quality and productivity. We are also working to correct and eliminate the traditional practices of long work hours and unpaid overtime.

　Furthermore, we are striving to help employees more fully realize a work-life balance by actively introducing telework as a flexible working style that makes it possible for individuals to make effective use of time and space.

Increasing Efficiency of Contract Operations

SCSK has dramatically increased not only its own but also partner companies’ work efficiency by completing the massive number of contract procedures, which exceed 30,000 annually, through Web-EDI.^*1Making use of a seamless communication portal, we are also working to increase the quality of operations by linking important items related to regulatory and general compliance.
^*2 Web-EDI (Electronic Data Interchange): a system for increasing work efficiency by conducting business transactions between companies over the Internet.

Thoroughly Implementing Information Security and Compliance

When handling information that is the important assets of clients, SCSK and its partner companies demand thorough compliance with Information Security Guidelines set by SCSK and undertake several other activities, such as regular briefings and field audits.

　To eliminate information security incidents, we also thoroughly implement information security and compliance with partner companies, work to create a safe and reliable value chain that offers high value added, and win the trust of client and society.

Promoting Sustainability

Having received the understanding and consent of partner companies, SCSK undertakes IT industry sustainability promotion activities with those companies.
In addition to sharing with partner companies the SCSK Group Human Rights Policy formulated in May 2022, we conduct activities to raise awareness of respect for human rights. Furthermore, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including those from the supply chain, we not only share information on the various measures related to awareness of the climate change problem and reducing emission, but also promote initiatives to realize a sustainable society.