Green Procurement Policy
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Company-Confidential GREEN PROCUREMENT POLICY
Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 3
2. SCOPE.................................................................................................................................... 3
3. OUR COMMITMENT ............................................................................................................... 3
4. PROCUREMENT POLICY ....................................................................................................... 3
5. POLICY REVIEW .................................................................................................................... 3
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Company-Confidential GREEN PROCUREMENT POLICY
1. INTRODUCTION
Green Procurement Policy is an integral part of the Sustainability policy and outlines Tech Mahindra’s
formal procedures and considerations for purchasing goods and services. Green Procurement
incorporates human health and environmental concerns into the search for high quality products and
services at competitive prices
TechM ranks environmental sustainability as one of its top priorities and is committed to following
responsible business practices by contributing to environmental protection and enhancing people
performance by green procurement and services while ensuring business growth for its supply chain,
2. SCOPE
This policy shall apply to all supply chain partners and shall impact all purchases and procurement for
the organization.
3. OUR COMMITMENT
Tech Mahindra’s undeterred focus on good corporate governance is strengthened by our commitment
to sustainable development. We believe that environmentally sustainable business operations are a
key part of our governance practices and will empower us to create the next wave.
4. PROCUREMENT POLICY
Tech Mahindra seeks to reduce the environment impacts of our procurement process and also
encourage our suppliers to adopt sustainable supply chain practices.
Tech Mahindra shall engage with our supply chain partners and shall include the following
considerations into procurement decisions
· Encouraging suppliers to deliver products/services with minimal negative impact on
environment and adopt safe practices in the cycle from production to delivery.
· Preferring products that are eco-friendly, energy efficient and less polluting,
· Disposing goods to authorized agencies in environmentally friendly manner.
· Procuring products and services that have a minimal negative impact on the environment
· Products that are water efficient and reduce water use;
· Less toxic products to reduce health effects;
· Utilizing clean technology and/or clean fuels;
· Monitor, evaluate sustainability performance and identify improvement opportunities
· Reduce environmental footprint by means of material, energy & water conservation
· Encourage logistics optimization and waste reduction using 3 R (Reduce, Recycle & Reuse)
· Promote a safe and healthy workplace for the employees
· Promote sustainability awareness and assessments at supply chain through IT enabled
processes
· Enhance sustainability within their own supply chain
· Procurement of recycled/part-recycled products to optimize resource consumption
· Procure energy efficient equipment by defining specifications in tender & contracts
5. POLICY REVIEW
The policy will be owned by Procurement team & Corporate Sustainability who will be responsible for
making suitable amendments, if any, from time to time.
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