Helping Production Suppliers Resume Work Safely During the COVID-19 Pandemic

In early 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak halted the operations of many of our production suppliers, which in turn threatened our supply chain. Huawei took the following actions to help our production suppliers resume work safely:

• Risk identification: We identified suppliers that faced high risk, listed the affected materials and their codes, and explored solutions together with the suppliers and local government.
• Experience sharing: We sent a Proposal for Ensuring Effective Pandemic Prevention and Control to more than 500 suppliers, and provided a Checklist on Onsite Pandemic Prevention and Control for Production Department in four languages (Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean). The checklist includes 94 items in 18 categories across 4 dimensions. We also shared Huawei's best practices in COVID-19 prevention and control.
• Medical supplies: We worked with medical institutions to create purchase channels for face masks, with steady supply, standardized pricing, centralized distribution routes, and demand-driven allocations.
• Workforce assurance: We collaborated with the Human Resources and Social Security Bureaus of Shenzhen and Dongguan to develop and implement transportation plans that enabled over 500 of our suppliers' key employees to safely return to work after Chinese New Year. 

Through our joint efforts, we helped our major suppliers quickly resume work. This allowed us to maintain on-time delivery of customers' key projects, and support smooth communications during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Medical supplies provided by Huawei to a production supplier