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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR)PROJECT FOR MICROSOFT Global Procurement Management 1(Group 1) OPER8010

Submitted to Mr. HarshalNaik

Submitted by Khushi Punjani- 8695281Khushi punjani angelinblessywilsonchristopher-8625641Angelinblessy Darshan Shah Parth Bhatt-8623399

-8671043Darshan shah parthbhatt

Submitted on April 17th,2020

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TABLE OF CONTENT:

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Executive Summary----------------------------------------------------3

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About Uchiha Technologies------------------------------------------3

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Establishes CSR Values-----------------------------------------------4

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Research &Identify the published CSR ---------------------------4

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Research & Identify contradictions --------------------------------4

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Microsoft Mission and Vision with their CSR values-----------5

VII. Levi’s care for their employees and suppliers--------------------6 VIII. Benefits and drawback of Microsoft organization CSR initiatives-------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 IX.

STEEPLE force impact on the purchasing department as they relate to company CSR values----------------------------------------9

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Why purchasing department should always be part of developing company CSR values and platforms--------------------------------10

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Reference-----------------------------------------------------------------11

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Company Introduction Sony Corporation:

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manufacturing, designing and distribution of electronic devices and equipments. The products are made for household consumers, professionals and for industrial markets. We provide services like game hardware and software, audio-visual recorders, music players, cameras, networking services and video recorders. We follow the footsteps of Sony Corporation. for the business and corporate socially responsible activities. We've organized our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report to share information about how we're improving the world and making a better place to live. In this yearly speculator letter, CEO - Mr. Parth Bhatt, addresses our business and social impacts and makes way for both the 2020 CSR and Financial yearly reports. But if regardless communicated, the information on this report covers the whole of the Uchiha Technologies errands during the 2020 monetary year.

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Executive summary: This report contains the information communicated structure the worldwide report activity, the human rights-related revelations rely upon the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights Reporting Framework (RAFI). this report fills in as the Uchiha Technologies yearly Communication on Progress (COP) under the United Countries (UN) Global Compact. To make this information effectively reasonable, to the purchasers and invested individuals,it would be perfect in the event that you see the Reports place point for a single visit of the total of the supplemental reports referenced all through our careful report.

5 UN global compact index: 

Human Rights: Organizations should support and regard the insurance of globally announced human rights and making sure they are not complicit in human rights abuses

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Labor: Organizations must to maintain the opportunity of affiliation and the powerful acknowledgment of the privilege to collective information. The effective prohibition of child labor. The elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labor.

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Environment: Business must keep the environment in the priority and promote to develop technology which does not harm the environment.

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Anti-corruption: Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery and must not tolerate the any kind of abuses.

CSR Governance: Engaging each individual and each association to accomplish more requires serious consideration regarding the effect of our strategic approaches, arrangements, and network speculations. The Uchiha Technologies and Corporate Responsibility gathering, in joint exertion with pioneers across business and undertakings, drives companywide approaches to manage corporate social obligation issues. The head of TCR (Mr. Darshan Shah) reports direct to Uchiha Technologies President and Chief Legal Officer (Mrs. Angeline), who sits on our Senior Leadership Group and reports l to CEO.

Establishes CSR values: The corporate social responsibility of Uchiha Technologies guided by the citizenship mission i.e. “to serve globally the requirements of communities and fulfil our responsibilities to the public". The charitable activities of the owners of Uchiha Technologiesalso are related to Microsoft in favour of the overall public to an excellent extent. Uchiha Technologieshas won various awards for its responsible behaviour towards the society, a number of them include ranking #1 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine's 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2018, ranking #1 for both, Environment and Social Score which accounts for corporate performance using over 200 factors.

6 Uchiha Technologies CSR Programs and Initiatives Supporting Local Communities 

Employees of Uchiha Technologiesdonated USD Half million to non-profit organizations serving its local communities and the world

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Uchiha Technologies Initiative provides a group of programs to empower youth, entrepreneurs, developers and business and civic leaders in the local community.

Labour, Human Rights, Gender Equality and Minorities at Uchiha Technologies 

Uchiha Technologiesprovides health and wellness programs for families, vacation, paid leave and paid day off for new parents

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Uchiha Technologiesoffers significant other benefits for Uchiha Technologies LGBT employees.

Carbon Emissions by Uchiha Technologies 

Since July 1, 2012, Uchiha Technologiesglobal operations are carbon neutral.

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The company has purchased over 14 million megawatt-hours (MWh) of green power and reduced company-wide emissions by over 9 million metric loads of CO2 equivalent (mtCO2e).

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Uchiha Technologieshas supported the lives of quite a few people in emerging nations through carbon offset community projects.

Energy Consumption by Uchiha Technologies 

30% of the electricity power consumed by data centers is directed from wind, solar, and hydro power electricity

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Air cooling techniques used at Uchiha Technologiesdata centers lowers the energy consumption by 20-30 percent.

Uchiha Technologiesand Sustainable Sourcing 

Uchiha Technologiesevaluates the operations of its suppliers by 23 different ethical, social, and environmental risks

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Company’s Device Supply Chain group (DSC) and indirect purchasing group oversee dedicated programs to make sure that its standards are met and to create partnerships with suppliers that advance social and environmental goals

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Company’s Global Procurement Group created a proper responsible sourcing function in 2013 to consolidate and enhance its responsible sourcing activities with our indirect suppliers

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More than 10,000 device and packaging components given by suppliers are evaluated for compliance by Uchiha Technologies

Role of Purchasing Agent in Uchiha Technologies:

1. As to reduce the electricity consumption solar panels are used, therefore the simplest solar panels are purchased by the agents which may help the organization to attain their ultimate goal of less power consumption. 2. Investigate purchasing case progress and answer inquiries about the status of buying cases 3. Maintain all sorts of catalogue. 4. Answer inquiries about products definition master data 5. Maintain purchase document print management 6. Respond to inquiries about policies governing the purchasing process 7. Record, Maintain, Approve and authorize purchase requisitions 8. Maintain request for quotations 9. Reply to inquiries about payment status for vendor invoices 10. View reports about the performance of workflows

Research and identify contradictions of Microsoft; Microsoft’s decide to go carbon negative has been criticised by environmental activists for being a publicity stunt. They claim that Microsoft’s measures are in contradiction with the corporate doing business and providing cloud space to big oil giants. "Energy transition goes to possess participants from the fuel industry to assist with it. They’re committing loads of dollars to new innovations," defended Nadella. He explained that using cloud servers, in itself, may be a way for the businesses to scale back their carbon footprint. He added that energy transition from polluting sources of energy to sustainable ones will take time. Going forward, Microsoft may additionally seek for advice from Gates and cooperation with a number of his initiatives to assist the environment. Nadella claims that given the dimensions of global climate change, big measures got to be taken within this decade.

8 Microsoft’s Mission and vision statement correlation with their CSR Values followed by Uchiha Technologies: Taking a closer look at the company vision and mission statement we can see that; Microsoft is the successful global computer technology with fulfillment of its corporate mission and vision statement. Microsoft’s mission is “to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more” which is to empower the value or benefits that the company can provide to the customer. The vision statement of Microsoft is “to help people and business throughout the world realize their full potential” which gives more information about the target market and product value to effectively guide the organization development. Yes, Microsoft correlate with the vision and mission statement by achieving an award foraCorporate Responsibility magazine’s for best corporate citizen’s in 2018.They awarded 1st for the environment and social score which was measured out of 200 factors of corporate performance. Microsoft supports the local communities by educating, by providing employment and entrepreneurship for 300 million people because that their mission and not only that they have empowered Afrika youth by providing programs like entrepreneurs, developer and business and civic leader because they want this people to know about their own potential. One of the CSR activity is labor and Human Rights at Microsoft by providing the health and wellness program for the families with all paid vacation, paid sick leave because their responsibility is to make them realize about the people and business throughout the world. But the truth is that they are trying hard to make the employee come out of hurdles by proving lot more facilities for the business in a right way.

Microsoft cares the ethical statement for the employee as well as suppliers if so, how Microsoft correlate with the published purchasing guide from a well-known purchasing association:Microsoft focus on providing safe working and productive environment for their employee and they are being transparent to the supplier also. Because the safe workplace will provide trust to the employee to contribute their own success. Not only that they also provide financial code of professional conduct, custom and side agreement policy. Microsoft rewarding their customer in much better way by giving gifts, hospitality and travel responsibly this will build strong will between Microsoft and those who do business with them. Best part is that employee will receive 10 % of the company stocks. Microsoft core

9 value are trustworthy, diversity, CSR, and environment and the presence of this value enable the worker to work towards the mission and vision of the firm. Microsoft workplace has a code of conduct for their suppliers and make sure that their suppliers adhere to that code of conduct to put forward them. This is to make sure that there no ill treatment of the supplier during working. Microsoft provide them program benefits like” Microsoft supplier program” in order to get recognition, events, training, and resources. They also provide supplier awards to encourage their excellence work through Microsoft supplier program (MSP) by giving them excellence awards program. Every year Microsoft finalize the supplier by looking into their superior performance, service, and innovation. And the winner will be finalized by the employee in business unit and the professionals of Microsoft procurement and that’s how they value the suppliers. Suppliers and their business will be verified by using procurement lead to ensure that the suppliers are ethical and standard.

Organizations overall vision and published mission statementcorrelate totheCSRvalues benefitsthattheorganization’s CSR initiatives mayhave ontheirpurchasingdepartment intermsof supplier screening, strategicsourcing and maintainingethical standards It is undeniable that the doing CSR activities boosts company’s image more rapidly and helps grow company rapidly in the market as well it also creates trust, likely many activity inspires to do more by join the company. as every has two side, it has its own pros and cons for it; Building reputation among the locals:

Corporate social research can help you with

building a notoriety for being a trustworthy business, which can, subsequently, lead to advantage. company’s normally favour suppliers who have reliable methodologies, since this can assess how their customers see them. A couple of customers would prefer basically not to oversee organizations. Cost saving: it can help to serve with products that benefits environment and save money as well. Giving away some energy saving devices and better working devices will help save cost and environment. Finding and keeping talented staff: by helping people it creates popularity among them, which help on the talent hunt as well helps to retain the existence one. On top of that, by acting responsible and beneficiary for the locals, gives certain advantage with the accessing the finances and attracting investors to grow the company, by doing CSR

10 activity organization can also get the data of the possible improvement and business sector to enter with, working with people builds positive reputation, customer loyalty.

Dis-advantages Of Corporate Social Responsibility the CSR programs go with their own game plan of troubles. Also, remembering that knowing the upsides of CSR can help you with those domains more, perceiving the potential issues may give you the edge that can help save your business as time goes on.

Risk of dis-closing flaws in the company’s products: CSR approaches order the organizations to uncover the inadequacies of their own items on the off chance that they are found to disregard the CSR program. In the event that your current clients discover the defects of your items, they are well on the way to lose confidence in your organization. Customers get impatient: on the off chance that the program doesn't offer immediate results, individuals may think this is only a PR stunt. That won't be useful for your organization's reputation.

Significant Budgets/cost effectiveness factor: when organization are offering back to society, it costs you a great deal of capital. In case you increase the expense of your things to make up for the costs, the customers should bear the weight.

STEEPLE stands for Social, Technological, economic, environmental, political, legal and ethical. Based on the research and the data collected over the benchmarking findings, purchasing department must be at the heart while building the company’s CSR values and platforms, and the goal of this is to prospect forecast the company’s valuation over the coming years. It is further developed as it covers outside variables that influence the association's internal and outer condition and structure. As serving back the community costs money, taking in accounts factor related to STEEPLE- Activity’s related to Social giving’s and helping poor with their needs has significant amount to serve, as well developing or giving technologically improved products has cost to add on it as well some cases the company might even need to build up facility to accommodate such improved products, while doing if it’s not there. As for

11 that purchasing department must be aware of the related and allocated funding for the CSR activities to allocate its funding. Environmental activity’s such as giving the LED Lightbulb or planting trees over the villages people may help them to reduce the power consumptions and also helps them lowering the electricity bill as it consumes less power. Where helping them with pure water might cost more, as it involves instalment of water-purification plat which helps the certain peoples, but the company must have the allocated funds for that otherwise it might end up shorting their hand over the company improvement and term ending goals. Such activity like giving food and adopting serval zoo/animals as part iftheir conversion, may include legal and ethical procedures. Moreover, company must make sure they don’t convey the wrong message to convey by doing something which ay impact the company’s reputation negatively. As the finance department must takes all the measure and allocates as well helps to conduct such CSR activities, but also helps to maintain the company’s primary goal and extra activity of CSR must not impact the company overall performance.

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acompany’sCSRvalues and platforms.? The function of purchasing department in every company has changed dramatically in this modern word and it will continue to evolve in coming years. Nowadays, purchasing department is not only about buying items at low rates by negotiation or picking up a decent offer for the necessary commodity, it is an essential strategic organizational role. Purchasing department does, indeed, play an important position in every company by distribution, travel sourcing, and product design. Therefore, it influences the judgement by companies about the make-or-buy, the supply base structure and the essence of the partnership with consumer suppliers. However, there are many CSR initiatives intertwined in the organization of corporate social responsibility and recruitment, which can be strengthened by a broad variety of purchasing factors Here at Uchiha Technologies, we are trying to have a social impact learning from Microsoft following its footsteps we are providing technological knowledge to kids who can’t afford computers and create technology that doesn’t harm the environment, like how Microsoft evaluates the operations of its suppliers by 23 different ethical, social, and environmental risks we aren’t able have 23 risks evaluated but we try to evaluate as much as possible with the help of suppliers who cooperate with small organizations like ours. At this point the

12 purchasing department come in and negotiate with the suppliers for achieving targets of environmental sustainability and lower cost. And purchasing department keeps connections with the suppliers for having to achieve future targets even more efficiently. Because it is key to have good relations with the supplier to have a win - win situation. Based on the topic above, it can be inferred that the Departm...