Primary Suppliers definition
Examples of Primary Suppliers in a sentence
The information furnished by our Primary Suppliers was reviewed and analyzed by our internal team led by KVH’s Director of Global Supply Chain and retained within the company’s document retention system.
As a result of KVH’s position in the supply chain, there are generally several tiers of suppliers between KVH and the smelters/refiners in our supply chain, and therefore we do not conduct or commission independent third-party audits of the smelters and refiners from which our Primary Suppliers source Conflict Minerals.
Among the responses, some of our Primary Suppliers were unable to identify any of the smelters or refiners used in the Supplier Materials supplied to us and certain responses also included names of smelters or refiners that we believe may have been incomplete or misidentified.
The data obtained from our Primary Suppliers was vetted by our Global Supply Chain team and then used to generate a comprehensive list of all smelters/refiners that had been identified by our Primary Suppliers, which list was then cross-referenced against information from RMI’s Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (“RMAP”) to help us identify the compliant smelters/refiners and origin of minerals processed.
We refer to this group of suppliers as our “Primary Suppliers.”We then elected to survey all our Primary Suppliers.
Consequently, as in prior reporting years, we were unable to validate that any of the smelters or refiners identified by our Primary Suppliers, including the smelters identified above, are actually in our supply chain.
Each of the Primary Suppliers informed KVH that they do not directly purchase materials from any of the smelters listed above and that they were either (i) downstream distributors of components and/or (ii) engaged as build-to-print contract manufacturers who do not choose the components.
Based on the information received from our Primary Suppliers, KVH believes that the facilities that may have been used to process Conflict Minerals in our Covered Products include the smelters and refiners listed in Annex 1 below.
Such names have not been included among the list of smelters and refiners identified by our Primary Suppliers in Annex 1 below.
If such measures and instructions are not adopted by the Primary Suppliers within given timeframe, the PIU will change the Primary Suppliers who can demonstrate that they meet the requirement of ESS2 and UNDP SES Standard 7.