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

• Challenge
• Our policy
• Responsible executive (as of April 2024)
• Organizational responsibilities (as of April 2024)
• Main resources for promoting activities (2023)
• Activities

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 2024)

Senior Corporate Officer and Vice President of the Digital Transformation Headquarters

Organizational responsibilities (as of April 2024)

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 (2023)

DX promotion office: 50 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. Following the introduction of SAP S/4HANA in our Serbia Factory, which began operations in July 2022, we are preparing to implement it at sites in Japan in 2026. We strive to revolutionize the way work is carried out, in line with ERP reform, such as ensuring all departments push ahead with plans to standardize their operations, aiming to minimize quality loss, optimize logistics and utilize information and data.