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Materiality Analysis

Materiality Analysis

The Assesment Process

Identification

The stakeholder concerns were consolidated through the following channels:
1. Regulatory Compliance-Prority
2. Sustainability Ratings-Prority
3. Customer Surveys
4. Media Interviews
5. Partner Engagements
6. Supplier Theme Communications
7. NGO/Academic Collaborations

 

Consolidated into 26 sustainability issues

Impact Evaluation

Considering stakeholder perspectives, adjust the impact index of sustainability issues:
• Impact on ASUS
• Impact on environment, economy and people

Impact index

Calculated by Sustainability Team


 

Consider stakeholder perspectives to adjust the impact index

Validation of Materiality

The Sustainability Team compiles the impact degree of the issue and impact index

Validation of 10 highly material issues

Regular Reviews

• Establish management policies and objectives for highly material issues
• Review of the management and achievement progress on a Quarterly basis







 

Review issues and processes every year .

Stakeholders Engagement

ASUS identified stakeholders with major influences on ASUS, including seven stakeholder categories of employees, customers, supply chain, and business partners, investors, governments and NGOs, academic units and society (i.e., community and media). Through diverse channels, we carry out exchanges and engagements regularly and from time to time to understand stakeholders' expectations, and, at the same time, the information sources are used for evaluations of sustainability topics and impacts:

Employee

Customers

Supply Chain and Business Partner

Investors

Governments and NGOs

Academic

Society

Importance to ASUS

ASUS considers employees as the most important stakeholders. ASUS cultivates employees' professional skills and provides sound occupational environments for employees based on its business philosophy and becomes an employer favored by employees.

Engagement Method

  • CEO On-Live
  • Information portal website , website/system announcement, meetings

Engagement Frequency

  • Quarterly
  • From Time to Time

Importance to ASUS

ASUS aims to become the world’s most admired and innovative leading technology enterprise in the new digital era, ASUS observes the customer-oriented principles, sparing no effort in providing unparalleled digital life experiences for customers.

Engagement Method

  • Information technology exhibition
  • Product launch, website and email, customer satisfaction survey

Engagement Frequency

  • Annually
  • From Time to Time

Importance to ASUS

Business partners and ASUS has built a value chain of mutual benefits; by improving the cooperation relationships with a balanced ESG, we jointly create new business models and enhance our sustainable competitiveness.

Engagement Method

  • Supplier conference
  • Business review
  • Audits on suppliers, on-site consultation and audits, various information sessions, website

Engagement Frequency

  • Annually
  • Quarterly
  • From Time to Time

Importance to ASUS

ASUS focuses on its golden triangle strategy of "Design Thinking," "net recommendation value," and "market position" to create stable profits and return on equity and exert its achievements in sustainable governance.

Engagement Method

  • Shareholders' meeting, annual report, sustainability report
  • Investors' conference, financial statement
  • Markets Observation post system(MOPS)

Engagement Frequency

  • Annually
  • Quarterly
  • From Time to Time

Importance to ASUS

ASUS complies with laws and regulations, follows governmental policies, and responds to NGOs‘ high-standard expectations to exert exemplary and guiding characteristics as a leading brand.

Engagement Method

  • Information sessions, forums, seminars, and other meetings

Engagement Frequency

  • From Time to Time

Importance to ASUS

Through industrial-academic cooperation, we cultivate and explore professional talents for the future. Meanwhile, we have built communication channels to introduce new ideas and conduct cooperation to develop innovative technologies.

Engagement Method

  • Official correspondence/Information sessions, forums, seminars, research interviews, Collaboration in academic publications, course tutors

Engagement Frequency

  • From Time to Time

Importance to ASUS

ASUS contributes to the society with core business to solve environmental and social problems, and generate positive influences.

Engagement Method

  • Press release, dedicated unit for media and PR, social media

Engagement Frequency

  • From Time to Time
 

Materiality Metric

All

Environment

Social

Governance and Economy

Supply chain management

Material Matrix of all issues
Material Matrix of Environment
Material Matrix of Social
Material Matrix of Governance and Economy
Material Matrix of Supply chain management

* Human Rights, Managerial Compensation System were NEW in 2023

Impact of Material Issues

For material issues, ASUS has established its management policies and formulated action plans and set targets and indexes based on the digitalized measurement strategies to periodically track the achievements. For other issues that are not material, we disclose existing management procedures and measures for stakeholders to understand the overall sustainability achievements of ASUS. 

Table of Impact of Material Issues