Over the past 12 months, Lenovo has increased its focus on key areas of the supply chain, including security, digital transformation, and environmental sustainability, as well as the company’s global/local approach to improve efficiency and improve customer outcomes.

Lenovo’s global hybrid manufacturing network currently includes more than 30 manufacturing bases, distributed in 10 of Lenovo’s 180 business markets, including Argentina, Brazil, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Japan, Mexico, and the United States, thereby ensuring supply Chain elasticity and adapt to any interference.

Lenovo’s supply chain fully exemplifies its global/local strategy, which not only improves the operational efficiency of enterprises, but also focuses on localized manufacturing strategies （ European manufacturing for Europe, American manufacturing for the Americas, and Asian manufacturing for Asia ）, Bring absolute advantages to customers. Bringing production closer to customers can shorten the local supply chain, use local skilled labor, and support Lenovo’s sustainable development goals through more sustainable production methods. Manufacturing equipment close to customers significantly shortens the transportation mileage of these products and provides more efficient and sustainable transportation options. E.g，Since it was put into operation in 2022，Lenovo’s European manufacturing plant in Hungary has been issuedMore than 1.5 million workstations and servers，Covering more than 2,500 customers in 70 markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Lenovo Senior Vice President and Group Operator Che Min (Jammi) Tu said: “The supply chain has always been Lenovo’s advantage and the basis for our future success. In the past few years, we have noticed that due to the impact of the circulation of goods, it has a ripple effect on enterprises and their reputation, and the supply chain has become the headline news around the world. Today, more than ever, it is clear that the company’s supply chain is a competitive advantage and can no longer be regarded as a cost center. Lenovo has actually successfully transformed the global supply chain into a business center and profit pool. We also pioneered the launch of “ Manufacturing or Service ”（Manufacturing as a Service）, and developed and hatched new technologies and solutions for customers in our manufacturing plants and logistics services. We have always been recognized as one of the most outstanding supply chains in all industries in the world, which makes us very proud.

Lenovo is committed to providing innovative, efficient and flexible products to global customers, and a flexible supply chain is the basis of this commitment, therebyEnsure that cutting-edge products are safely delivered to customers.

Lenovo’s supply chain security method is based on prevention. Lenovo conducts a rigorous review of suppliers and components, and embeds the company’s safety design methods into the product life cycle. Lenovo guarantees the safety of products by adopting a proactive strategy for backdoors, contaminated products, counterfeit products and hardware/software loopholes, and sets higher industry standards for supply chain safety.

Lenovo Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer Doug Fisher said: “Lenovo is committed to promoting supply chain security through leadership, so we are always at the forefront of supply chain development. Our goal is to ensure that products are safe, reliable, flexible, and trustworthy before entering the customer environment. We prove the integrity of each device until the lowest level of the system. ”

Lenovo also abides by the ESG（ environmental, social and governance ） principle, and is the first company to verify the target according to the net zero standard of the “ Scientific Objective Initiative ”, and is also the first PC and smartphone manufacturer. Lenovo has always been committed to adapting to future operations by improving the robustness, adaptability and profitability of the supply chain, and recently releasedLenovo ESG Navigator，This digital solution is used to collect and measure ESG data points such as energy use in factories in real time.

WithLenovo Intelligent Sustainability Solution Consultant （LISSA）With the development of artificial intelligence-driven environmental, social and governance assessment systems, Lenovo is providing customers with operational sustainable development insights from the global supply chain, enabling them to understand the estimated emission impact of the entire IT life cycle and make Key decision to reduce emissions. development ofLISSAInitially to support supply chain decision-making, it has now been put into commercial applications to support customers’ IT sustainable development goals.

As part of Lenovo’s promotion of the circular economy, Lenovo uses the supply chain to provide after-sales support to customers. Where possible, the returned components are repaired, quality tested, and reused by engineers. So far, more than 4 million components including the main board, processor, drive, memory, etc. have been reused during the product life cycle to avoid being sent to landfills.

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