Our customers depend on KLA-Tencor for state-of-the-art technology and services. This requires a sophisticated supply base. Therefore, it is critical that KLA-Tencor continues to foster strong and extremely collaborative supplier relationships and that our supply chain is:

• Innovative - creates leading-edge technology and solutions, in advance of customer needs
• Reliable - delivers the highest quality products and services, on time, anywhere in the world
• Effective - rapidly delivers products and services at the optimal total cost
• Efficient - lean, flexible and resilient

In addition, it is critical that together we maintain the highest ethical standards and are mutually committed to global social and environmental responsibility standards, regulations and laws. In this regard, as we do ourselves, we fully expect our suppliers to continue to comply with these standards and create a business environment and processes that ensure compliance by (1) promoting standards within your company, (2) implementing supporting business processes, (3) self-certifying, measuring, auditing and reporting performance against those standards, (4) appropriately training your employees and (5) and requiring the same standards of your suppliers.

With much appreciation,

Scott G. Paull
Chief Procurement Officer
Executive Vice President, Global Supply Chain and Corporate Operations