Information for suppliers includes import compliance guidelines, supplier diversity documents, Ombudsman information, environmental and packaging requirements, printed circuit board information, supplier letters, IBM standard terms and conditions, and tax forms to facilitate doing business with IBM Procurement.
Table of contents
Compliance and general guidelines
- Accessibility guidelines for suppliers
- Corporate logistics procedure 10.13 (version 8) - normal and sensitive parts security (193KB)
- Country of origin marking instructions
- Global labeling guides
- Global quality report (10KB)
- IBM Standard terms and conditions
- IBM Supplier notification California proposition 65 (ISN-CAP 65) (176KB)
- Instructions for exports to IBM
- Ombudsman information
- Shipping transportation guidelines
- Social and environmental management system supplier requirements
- Supplier diversity
- Supplier letters
- Supplier parts quality reporting requirements October 2005 (1KB)
- Supply chain security requirement
- Tax forms
- U.S. Contractor safety guides
Environmental requirements
- WSP PCD Supplier support portal
- Product content declaration for IBM suppliers (PCD) - IBM part number 46C3484
- 13 July 2007: IBM WEEE form (24KB)
- 03 May 2004: Restriction on hazardous substances (22KB)
- 28 October 2004: IBM revision of restriction of hazardous substances (RoHS) specifications for purchased electronic components (27KB)
- 19 June 2008 - EU Battery directive 2006-66-EC (123KB)
- 13 April 2012: TSCA alert: EPA list of polybrominated diphenyl ethers--proposed SNUR (23KB)
- 13 April 2012: TSCA alert: EPA list of nine new and twenty-four previously restricted benzidine-based substances--proposed SNUR (24KB)
Packaging requirements
Packaging - environmental requirements:
- IBM ES 5897661,14 May 2012: Recyclable packaging materials, selection and identification (703KB)
- IBM ES 5897660, 29 April 2011: Packaging materials, essential requirements, restricted heavy metals and other substances of very high concern (117KB)
- IBM ES 37L8024, 17 July 2009: Wooden packing, materials treatment and marking requirements (147KB)
Packaging - environmental compliance reporting:
Deployment of IBM's new procurement system
Within IBM Procurement, a new procurement system has been deployed to manage the purchase order (PO) execution process. For details of the new procurement system and how it may impact you and to help answer some of your questions, please review the frequently asked questions (FAQs) document below: