G: Promoting digital transformation (borderless and centralized business management through ERP reform)

Challenge

Promoting digital transformation (borderless and centralized business management through ERP reform)

Our policy

It is becoming increasingly important to utilize business data as the globalization of business progresses. We will promote the even deeper use of data to help the entire Group make appropriate management decisions by developing a management platform that facilitates the rapid collection and centralized management of accounting, sales and other digital data.

Responsible executive (as of April 2023)

Senior Corporate Officer and Vice President of the Digital Transformation Headquarters

Action promotion system (as of April 2023)

In addition to setting up a DX promotion system using our established reporting lines, we are actively promoting DX by creating an in-house taskforce to handle DX projects.

Main resources for promoting activities (2022)

DX promotion office: 52 people

Activities

Introducing SAP S/4 to revolutionize ERP

Our current enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are optimized for each site around the world, but we are in the process of reforming the entire system to be globally centralized and of a global standard in order to gain timely understanding of information necessary to management decisions. We are implementing SAP S/4HANA, and have started with our Serbia Factory that began operations in July 2022. As the next step, we are investigating implementation at sites in Japan, and all departments are pushing ahead with plans to standardize their operations. Gaining centralized access to and utilizing information and data will revolutionize the way work is carried out, and help minimize quality loss, optimize logistics and otherwise improve our business.