The Company places great importance on developing the capabilities and enhancing the competencies of its business partners and procurement employees in order to create opportunities for effective business collaboration. This development covers environmental, social, and governance aspects, which serve as key foundations for sustainable growth throughout the supply chain.

The Company continuously communicates its policies, business direction, and relevant environmental and social issues to business partners through meetings, seminars, and activities under Kumwell Academy. These initiatives are designed to strengthen knowledge and understanding, foster collaboration between the Company and its business partners, and promote business practices that prioritize the safety of life and property.

This commitment is reflected in product development and quality control across every stage of the process, based on social and environmental responsibility—from product design, raw material selection and sourcing, and manufacturing to product testing in accordance with international standards. This helps ensure that products provided by both the Company and its business partners meet quality requirements and are safe for users.

The Company has also implemented business partner capability development initiatives to enhance relevant technical knowledge across environmental, social, governance, and economic aspects of long-term business operations. These initiatives are designed to encourage business partners to apply theoretical knowledge to their operational processes, improve their overall performance, reduce environmental impacts, and strengthen social responsibility.

The programs also aim to help business partners mitigate risks and create greater opportunities for sustainable business collaboration. One example is an initiative to encourage business partners holding a Factory License (Ror. Ngor. 4) to pursue Green Industry Certification.

The Company also develops annual plans to continuously enhance the capabilities of procurement employees by strengthening the knowledge, competencies, and skills required for sustainable supply chain management. This enables employees to respond to organizational changes and evolving business conditions in a timely and efficient manner.

Learning and development are promoted through both internal and external training, knowledge sharing and Knowledge Management (KM), as well as the development of technology and information system skills relevant to procurement operations. In addition, the Company continuously improves its work processes by integrating Digital Information with data from the SAP system to enhance procurement data management.

This integration supports the analysis and processing of purchase orders, operational planning, and resource management with greater speed and accuracy. It also helps reduce processing time and further improve the efficiency and effectiveness of procurement employees.

The initiatives described above reflect the Company’s commitment to continuously developing the capabilities of its business partners and employees, while strengthening relationship management to enhance overall operational quality and efficiency.

Through these efforts, the Company aims to promote environmentally responsible production processes, uphold social responsibility, and foster strong, transparent, and collaborative business relationships that support mutual and sustainable growth.