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Ricoh Group Sustainability Report 2013 54
Collection and recycling
Having promoted recycling-oriented businesses since the 1990s, our product recovery network is
highly efficient today. We have refined our entire logistics process and reduced our environmental
impact by continuously refining our arterial and venous logistic flows.
Product collection (reverse logistics)
Our logistics system integrates both arterial flows
that deliver products to our customers and venous
flows that collect used products.
In the reverse logistics of our collection process,
information stored in a product’s bar code is read
into a product recycling database that compiles the
number and ratio of recovered products and parts.
This data is then used to develop plans for the sale
of recycled products or reuse of parts.
Recycling CenterGreen CenterUsed product
Sales subsidiary
Recovery Center
Recycled parts/
recycled products
Agreement
Ricoh’s
Management Division
Reporting the
completion to the
customer (Depending on
the customer’s request)
Material
recycling
To be used as
recycled materials
Chemical
recycling
To be used as
deoxidizing
materials for blast
furnaces
Landfill
To be reduced as
much as possible
Customer
Designing
The Ricoh Group’s design and development is integrated with our supply chain to fulfill increasingly
diverse customer needs while raising development efficiency and lowering product costs. We have
reimagined our entire design process from procurement to recovery and recycling.
Platform- & Module-type Development
Our Platform- & Module-type Development system
uses modules with flexible specifications in the
creation of new products.
฀ By฀minimizing฀the฀need฀for฀new฀modules฀to฀
upgrade product specifications, the system leads to
improved quality while making design work more
efficient. It also lets Ricoh channel resources to the
creation of highly advanced new technology and to
plan several generations in advance for the inclusion
of recycled components in new models.
ΣE System reduces total parts by
more than 90%
The ΣE System, developed from 1996 to 2006,
makes the selection of electronic parts more
efficient, lowers procurement costs and shrinks
inventories. It has helped us cut the number of
discrete฀parts฀used฀in฀Ricoh฀products฀from฀35,000฀
to฀just฀3,000.฀Parts฀that฀are฀registered฀in฀the฀
ΣE System database have their QCDE (quality, cost,
delivery, ecology) certified by a group of specialists
and are cleared for use by Ricoh engineers. The
system accelerates parts selection in the upstream
phase of the design process, ensures quality and
reduces procurement costs and inventories.
Product Planning Development Designing Engineering IT System
Sales &
Service Logistics Collection &
Recycling
ProductionProcurement
Sales & Service Logistics Collection & Recycling ProductionProcurement
ΣE System
Overview Action Data & Profile
SCM
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