Fujitsu's Commitment to Supply Chain Sustainability Achieving Net-Zero

Net Positive is a concept that aims to move beyond - minimizing the negative impacts of corporate activities towards a more ambitious positive impacts on society and the environment.

According to a Fujitsu’s Net Positive Index, independently researched and developed by Economist Impact, companies with mature Net Positive initiatives, regardless of industry, tended to be more likely to achieve their revenue and market share goals, and consistently gained investor trust. For businesses, the pursuit of Net Positive offers benefits for both business growth and social/environmental aspects. However, the Index revealed that despite many corporate executives and decision-makers understanding these dual benefits, they face challenges in implementing Net Positive strategies.

Achieving Net Positive requires more than internal change. It demands shared values and close collaboration across the entire supply chain, from suppliers to partners.

Fujitsu has tackled this challenge head-on.

For example, in the Partnership for Carbon Transparency (PACT) program hosted by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Fujitsu became the first company worldwide to visualize greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its entire supply chain. By collaborating with 19 suppliers on data integration, Fujitsu aims to achieve net-zero emissions across its supply chain by 2040.

Beyond environmental impact, Fujitsu is using external collaboration to strengthen risk management to address a range of supply chain risks, including natural disasters, information security, financial stability, and compliance. Internally, Fujitsu developed Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) to centrally monitor and analyse risks from suppliers and partners, as well as external factors such as geopolitical issues, regulations, and tariffs.


In this article, Takashi Yamanishi, Fujitsu’s CSSO discusses the background and achievements of Fujitsu's supply chain sustainability efforts.

―― When did Fujitsu begin its commitment to  sustainability?

The Fujitsu Group has long established sustainability targets and promoted social impact global activities. Fujitsu’s net zero targets are validated by SBTi (Science Based Targets initiative) ensuring they are consistent with global warming scenarios.
Driven by a strong social responsibility, in 2023 Fujitsu accelerated its environmental goals, aiming for zero greenhouse gas emissions across its global value chain by 2040.

‘We have fully commenced our efforts to promote supply chain sustainability, and in April 2024, we established the CSSO (Chief Sustainability & Supply Chain Officer) position to further accelerate these initiatives.’

In the Mid-Term Management Plan announced in fiscal year 2023, we newly defined "Materiality in Management," which more strongly reflects the perspective of "providing value to customers and society." ,
Currently, we are enhancing our internal systems and strengthening collaboration with business partners, focusing on three pillars: preventing and mitigating human rights risks, addressing environmental aspects such as GHG emission reduction, and ensuring diversity.

──You successfully achieved data integration and visualization of CO2 emissions across the entire supply chain. What challenges and difficulties did you encounter in driving this initiative, and how did you resolve them?

Following the press release on data collaboration with suppliers last year, we aimed to collaborate with approximately 20 additional companies. As of October 2025, we have successfully integrated ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) data with 19 suppliers. This initiative has improved the accuracy of Scope 3 emissions (GHG emissions across the entire supply chain) calculations, enabling us to understand GHG emissions on a per-product basis. Additionally, it has reduced operational workload and enhanced efficiency through centralized management and unified management.

During the process of this initiative, we faced several challenges, including gaining supplier consensus, addressing concerns about information leakage to competitors during data sharing, and ensuring compliance with both international standards (WBCSD PACT) and domestic rules (Green x Digital Consortium).

To gain supplier consensus, we held one-on-one dialogues with each company, confirming their understanding of emissions, assessing the feasibility of collecting data from upstream suppliers, and clearly communicating the importance of the initiative.

Concerns about information leakage were addressed by leveraging Uvance's offering, the “Sustainability Value Accelerator,” to promote the development of a system that ensures confidentiality, thereby creating an environment where data can be shared with peace of mind.

Collaboration with peers and other ecosystem players is crucial to Fujitsu’s sustainability goals. We addressed compliance with both international and domestic standards by developing an integration method and ensuring interoperability that aligns with both. As the lead of the Data Visualization Project within the Green x Digital Consortium, a coalition of Japanese businesses focused on accelerating decarbonization, Fujitsu successfully facilitated the adoption of a standard tailored to the Japanese context, bridging the differing methodologies and specifications of the domestic Green x Digital Consortium standards and the international PACT standards. This resulted in the creation of an environment that facilitates data collaboration, leading over 130 businesses to recognize and prioritize PCFs in their strategies.

These achievements represent a crucial step towards Fujitsu's own carbon neutrality goals and the provision of sustainable offerings. Moving forward, we will accelerate our efforts by collaborating with an increasing number of domestic and international partners, creating reduction simulations and case studies, to achieve net-zero by 2040.

── How do supply chain sustainability initiatives contribute to business growth?

For us, achieving a sustainable supply chain is the fundamental pillar supporting the very sustainability of our business, which we pursue in close collaboration with all our partners and suppliers. It is, therefore, a prerequisite for business growth.

Currently, we are focusing on internal applications, integrating Uvance—Fujitsu’s own digital services solutions—within our supply chain. Through initiatives like CO2 emission visualization and TPRM, we actively engage suppliers and partners in using Uvance. Insights gained from these efforts, including both successes and challenges, are fed back into Uvance product development, enhancing the quality of Fujitsu’s offerings and creating higher value-added solutions.
These activities are jointly led by the Uvance business divisions and supply chain teams, who continuously discuss user needs and business challenges while exploring improvements through innovative technology applications. Fujitsu’s supply chain sustainability initiatives aim to create a Net Positive loop, maximizing impact and advancing sustainability for our customers and society as a whole.

── What direction is Fujitsu aiming for in terms of supply chain sustainability in the future?

We aim to achieve net-zero across our entire value chain by 2040. To reach this goal, three elements are essential for supply chain sustainability: data-driven approaches, global collaboration, and strong governance.

For greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the supply chain, it is critical to strengthen collaboration with suppliers and partners and work together to reduce emissions. By leveraging technology, we will continue to advance initiatives that enable precise visualization of actual emissions and ensure that reduction efforts are accurately measured and reflected.

Beyond GHG emission reductions, the risks and regulations surrounding the supply chain, including information security, the impact of natural disasters, and sanction risks, are becoming increasingly complex. To address this , we aim to evolve our mechanisms to be flexible enough to continuously adapt to new risks and regulations, rather than being constrained by existing methods, and thereby build a truly sustainable and resilient supply chain.