Coway Sustainability

Purchase and Supplier Management

**Suppliers**
Category		2016	2017	2018
No. of suppliers	All	273	268	274
	1st tier suppliers	178	173	179
	2nd tier suppliers	95	95	95

**Strengthening Business Foundation**
Category	2017 Performance	2018 Performance
Financial support	Financial support: KRW 9.075 billion	Financial support: KRW 8.621 billion
Payment	Average payment term: 9.63 days	Average payment term: 9.67 days
Payment method	100% cash(equivalent) payment	100% cash(equivalent) payment
Dispute resolution procedures	Ethics Report Center Corporate policy and website announcement	Ethics Report Center Corporate policy and website announcement
Support for sales growth	Support for participation in global exhibition(1 time) Participation in purchase consulting seminar(4 times)	Purchases from suppliers: KRW 377 billion in 2017 → KRW 423.2 billion in 2018(12.2%)

**Supporting Infrastructure for Growth**
Category	2017 Performance	2018 Performance
Training support	Mutual Cooperation Center training: 937 people	Mutual Cooperation Center training: 823 people
Technical support & protection	Technical support/joint development: 28 cases Technology protection/escrow: 13 cases	Technical support/joint development: KRW 36 million, 5 cases Technology protection/escrow: 11 cases
Employment opportunity	Startup support training: 1,347 people
Energy saving	Electricity: 146,139Kwh/year↓ GHG: 64.29tonCO₂eq↓	Electricity: 141.32toe/year↓ GHG: 242.83tonCO₂eq↓
Productivity improvement	Companies with improved productivity: 68 companies, process innovation 117 cases	Companies with improved productivity: 68 companies, process innovation 60 cases