Supply Chain Overview and Supplier Screening

  • NT$ 38.36 billion in 2023 global procurement, 95.89% from local procurement
  • NT$ 23.9 billion in 2023 green procurement

In 2023, Taiwan Mobile had a total of 564 cooperating suppliers, categorized into six main types based on procurement categories. The category with the highest procurement amount was consumer electronics. Taiwan Mobile's global procurement amount in 2023 was NT$ 38.36 billion, with suppliers distributed across Taiwan, Asia, America, and Europe. The total local procurement amount in Taiwan reached NT$36.7 billion, accounting for 95.89% of the total procurement amount.

Additionally, Taiwan Mobile has been actively promoting green procurement, in line with international trends, including green procurement labels such as EPEAT, RoHS, and WEEE. This year's green procurement amount was NT$23.9 billion, accounting for 62.5% of the total procurement amount, which represents an increase compared to 2022. The increase is due to the inclusion of mobile phones certified with EPEAT in the scope of green procurement starting from 2023.

Green Procurement Percentage
Percentage of Procurement Expenditure
Supplier Analysis Result
Percentage of Procurement Expenditure for Tier 1 Key Suppliers
Percentage of the Number of Tier-1 Suppliers
Percentage of the Number of Tier-2 Suppliers

Significant Suppliers
Considering the significant business relevance of suppliers to Taiwan Mobile, as well as substantial risks of negative ESG impacts, we selected ESG risk assessment scores, procurement amounts, and irreplaceability as factors for identifying significant suppliers. Based on the above six categories of suppliers, thresholds were set respectively to identify significant suppliers, totaling 110 as follows.

  • Significant Suppliers (Tier-1): Suppliers that directly provide services to Taiwan Mobile, with a total amount exceeding NT$30 billion, and having substantial risks of negative ESG impacts, totaling 92 suppliers.
  • Significant Suppliers (Non Tier-1): Suppliers that provide services to Taiwan Mobile's Tier-1 suppliers, with either the amount or procurement category being critical, having substantial risks of negative ESG impacts, and not being Tier-1 suppliers to Taiwan Mobile, totaling 18 suppliers.

The total of 110 significant suppliers were screened through this process.

  • Country-specific risk: Through regulatory requirements and assess the risk of supplier compliance with national regulations, including but not limited to government mandates regarding the prohibition of products from specific regions.
  • Sector-specific risk: Through ESG risk assessment, identify the risks faced by the supplier's industry, such as human rights risks in specific industries.
  • Commodity-specific risk: Through product value chain analysis, identify upstream and downstream risks in the product value chain, such as controversial materials.
Category Type Number of suppliers
Engineering Tier1 34
Non Tier-1 3
Marketing, Consulting Services & Administration Tier1 3
Non Tier-1 3
Information Services and Equipment Tier1 21
Non Tier-1 9
Telecommunication Equipment Tier1 12
Non Tier-1 3
Consumer Electronics Tier1 18
Renovation Tier1 4
Supplier Screening FY 2023
Total number of Tier-1 suppliers 564
Total number of significant suppliers in Tier-1 92
% of total spend on significant suppliers in Tier-1 93.54%
Total number of significant suppliers in non Tier-1 18
Total number of significant suppliers (Tier-1 and non Tier-1) 110