We Are Transparency Driven

Seagate requires all key suppliers to complete the Responsible Business Alliance’s (RBA) Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) through the organisation's platform.

The SAQ is meant to help suppliers and manufacturers understand and discuss risks and best practices related to corporate responsibility. We review our suppliers’ SAQ scores regularly and may require a supplier to undergo a Validated Audit Process (VAP) audit.

On January 1, 2012, the California Supply Chain Transparency Act of 2010 (SB 657) came into effect in California. The law increases the amount and visibility of information available to consumers from manufacturers and retailers about efforts to address slavery and human trafficking across their supply chains.

Seagate is committed to a transparent supply chain in which any customer can access information about any supplier at any time. We require suppliers to complete and submit a Conflict Minerals Reporting Template and work towards sourcing from conflict–free validated smelters and refiners. We also have suppliers review relevant Responsible Business Alliance courses.

Seagate adopted the RBA Code of Conduct as our suppliers’ Code of Conduct and expects all suppliers to comply. Our program aligns with the RBA tools and processes, as we believe working in the collective is the most efficient way to manage supply chain responsibility. Seagate expects all our suppliers to pass the RBA Code of Conduct further downstream in the supply chain.

In FY2023, Seagate delivered training via four outsourced webinar sessions and two internally sourced webinar sessions, with approximately 302 supplier participants. These webinars included topics on responsible sourcing of minerals, greenhouse gas management, forced labour, implementing the RBA Code of Conduct, and developing effective corrective action plans for actual audit findings in these topic areas.

Seagate is committed to investing and protecting our operations and supporting the community from any foreseeable threats by aligning our business continuity practices with the ISO 22301 standard. The Seagate Business Continuity Policy captures this commitment.

The business continuity program is integrated with Seagate's supply chain risk management, enterprise security and resiliency, and incident and crisis management programs to ensure timely, effective, and holistic response to any incident that may impact our operations.

Since transitioning our business continuity planning practices to comply with the requirements of ISO 22301:2019, Seagate continues to maintain a robust business continuity management system (BCMS). Our commitment to continuous improvement of the system is guided by a business continuity performance scorecard, which sets the program framework for our manufacturing sites, as well as design centres across the enterprise. In addition, our supply chain risk management program continued to proactively monitor supplier risk with global event monitoring, research and analysis, and completing assessments of our suppliers. Mitigation planning exercises occur regularly to properly address any risk identified.