Restriction on the Use of Hazardous Substances
In order to ensure that it uses only materials that are environmentally friendly and conform to international standards and customer requirements, LITE-ON strictly demands all suppliers comply with its LS301 standards on hazardous substances. LS301 currently covers 218 different substances; they are classified into three categories: Prohibited, Controlled, and Possibly Prohibited (e.g. substances of very high concern (SVHC) at REACH). With the implementation of green supply chain management, we hope to bring customers the least toxic and least pollutive products as possible, and minimize any harmful impact they may have on the environment or the human being during the process.
LITE-ON has a GMS (Green Management System) and a HSF Committee in place, and has published material requirements, international laws, customer policies, and codes of conduct for suppliers' reference. Suppliers are required to report the results of their green product tests and substance controls on the GMS, where the company will analyze to confirm that they have complied with the green product guidelines and met international standards before releasing information regarding its green product management to customers. Customers' green product requirements such as ErP (Energy-related Product), 3R (Reuse, Recycle, Replace), and WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) have been incorporated into the company's management, and serve as guidelines for green product design.
The GMS enables LITE-ON to exercise green product management at higher efficiency, convenience, and in greater detail. It has become part of LITE-ON's green competitiveness. Through the use of this platform, the company was able to manage its supply chain with greater efficiency by filtering out those not capable of consistently supplying qualified electronic parts and producing green products to the satisfaction of international customers. Since its launch in 2010, the GMS has been fully implemented throughout all business units in LITE-ON, and has accumulated an extensive database of more than 35,000 different types of homogeneous materials.
Based on the four main values of Integration, Team Spirit, Regulation and Scalability, LITE-ON's HSF (Hazardous Substances Free) Committee has created a platform through which various departments such as R&D, Quality Control and Supply Chain Management may communicate and share the latest changes in international laws, technology development, and ways of addressing environmental concerns. This committee is spearheaded by LITE-ON's headquarters and comprises of members from all business units. Existence of the HSF Committee allows environmental factors to be taken into consideration as early as during the product design stage, and monitored real-time using the GMS to facilitate immediate improvements.
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