Managing Suppliers

Weyerhaeuser seeks to build relationships with our suppliers based on mutual benefit, trust, performance and a joint commitment to continuous improvement. We expect—and our contracts require—suppliers to operate ethically and to comply with all laws and regulations. Our contract suppliers must also become familiar with, comply with and maintain policies consistent with Weyerhaeuser's environmental, health and safety policies and standards.

Our suppliers core policy details our expectations of suppliers and what they can expect of us. We monitor suppliers' conformance with those requirements. If suppliers become deficient, improvement plans are developed. Where improvement in critical areas is not sustained, suppliers are replaced. These principles are consistent with the Institute for Supply Management's Principles of Social Responsibility, which we adopted in 2005.

While we do not collect data about our practices with regard to local suppliers, we operate a supplier-diversity program and conduct business according to our supplier core policy, as described above.

Weyerhaeuser has had a supplier-diversity program to increase the number of minority- and women-owned businesses supplying the company since 2003. In 2006, purchases from minority- or women-owned suppliers were up 17 percent from the year before, for a total of $244 million.