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The value chain supporting growth
To produce high added-value products and services, Konica Minolta has built a value chain supporting
everything from development to procurement, production, distribution, marketing and sales, and after-sales
support. Alongside leveraging this value chain to optimize costs, we are also working to improve quality,
reduce environmental impact, and develop the people who make it all possible.
Value Chain
Quality
Improvement
Initiatives
• Utilize the four core technologies
of materials, optics, nanoscale
fabrication, and imaging to
develop revolutionary products
• Mitigate procurement quality risk
through supplier diversification
• Work with business partners to
conduct quality improvement
activities
• Improve quality and avoid the risk
of overconcentrating production
sites in China by developing
additional production facilities in
ASEAN
• Share quality issues and
cross-deploy countermeasures by
conducting Production Capability
Assessments
• Improve and maintain logistics
quality (improve lead times and
reduce damage and losses) through
KPI management in cooperation
with logistics (shipping and
inventory) partners (contractors)
• Conduct logistics network design
and respond flexibly to reduce
logistics risks (freight congestion
caused by natural disasters,
government policies, conflicts, etc.)
•
Environmental
Initiatives
• Create the green products that
customers and society need
• Develop the environmental
technologies for creating green
products
• Work with business partners to
promote the Procurement
Collaboration activities for
ongoing mutual improvement of
business environments
• Work with business partners to
conduct green supplier activities
and reduce environmental impact
and costs
• Conduct green factory operations
that simultaneously reduce
environmental impact and cut costs
• Conduct upgrade recycling (using
upgraded recycled materials) to
solve regional environmental issues
• Reduce CO2 emissions through
better logistics efficiency
• Make packaging smaller and
lighter
•
•
Human
Resource
Initiatives
• Hold the Challenge Engineers
Forum to develop young
technicians
• Develop technology management
staff (MOT education)
• Provide intellectual property
education in China, where patent
acquisition is heating up
• Improve skills through personnel
rotation in and outside of Japan
• Conduct Product Safety
Education to improve awareness
and technologies aimed at
product safety
• At production sites, conduct
activities for building well-rounded
people and provide safety and
health education
• Strengthen logistics strategy
planning ability aimed at overall
optimization
• Strengthen ability to execute
when building a distribution
network
•
Cost Initiatives
• Acquire patents in Japan, the
U.S., China, and other countries
• Invest at least 70 billion yen
annually in R&D
• Work with business partners to
control costs, beginning at the
development stage
• Conduct efficient global
procurement activities that
account for logistics, exchange
rate volatility and other factors
• Achieve highly-efficient
production through digital
manufacturing (ICT, automation)
• Introduce universal production
processes by using modules
• Reduce costs by improving
shipping efficiency (improving
container/truck loading efficiency)
• Optimize inventory and improve
shipping efficiency through
optimal placement of distribution
facilities
•
Human Resource Management (pg. 58)
Environmental Management (pg. 57)
Quality Management (pg. 56)
R&D
P.53
Procurement
P.54
Production
P.54
Distribution
P.54
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