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Business Partners
Yamaha Motor products are created through collaboration with numerous
suppliers in Japan and other countries. As our procurement and sales
structures expand with our increasingly global business, the Yamaha Motor
Group is establishing cooperative relationships with suppliers and dealers
in Japan and around the world based on a spirit of mutual trust and
mutual benefit. For this reason, we strive to conduct fair business in
compliance with the competition laws of all countries and regions while
working to create partnerships that aim for mutual, sustainable growth.
Activities in Supply Chains
The Yamaha Motor Group regards its relationship with the supply chain not
just as conducting procurement, but as procurement that emphasizes the
incorporation of both cost and quality into its engineering, manufacturing,
and marketing. An example of these activities is the implementation of
“theoretical-value-based production” with suppliers. This does not simply
mean demanding cost reductions, but instead involves analyzing the
absolute value of engineering, manufacturing, and marketing together with
suppliers and then working together to find more ways to improve cost
competitiveness. We have trained some of our employees to serve as
“theoretical-value instructors” in order to promote the implementation of
“theoretical-value-based production” at suppliers inside and outside Japan
as an initiative to strengthen our cost competitiveness in concert with
them. In addition, we are promoting fair and clean procurement activities
globally through training programs covering our Green Procurement
Guidelines (detailing how to reduce our environmental impact and ensure
the efficient use of resources and energy) and CSR Guidelines for
Suppliers (which cover areas related to safety, quality, and compliance).
Activities at Dealerships
As our contact point with customers around the world, dealerships play an
important role in conveying Yamaha’s “next Kando.” By strengthening
relationships with dealers through regularly held dealer meetings and
activities to promote safe driving and support local communities, the
Yamaha Motor Group is building a sales network that provides common
value. In Japan, dealers mainly in Yamaha Sports Plaza (YSP), an official
Yamaha sports bike dealer system, and Yamaha Motorcycle Sales Japan
Co., Ltd. play an important role in building ties with local communities and
society by cooperating in a range of measures including motorcycle
infrastructure development, motorcycle etiquette training, motorcycle
recycling, tree planting, and other environmental campaigns, as well as
fundraising for seeing-eye dog training.
In order to ensure accountability by providing shareholders and investors
with appropriate, accurate, and timely information, Yamaha Motor has
established a specialized division which engages in IR activities inside as
well as outside Japan.
In addition to quarterly earnings briefings and the annual
shareholders’ meeting, during 2013 the division visited and held meetings
with overseas investors, provided information via the IR website, and
operated a website to provide information to individual investors. To even
more proactively disseminate information, the division held a business
briefing for analysts and journalists in July, and made a video of the
briefing publicly available to enable all shareholders and investors to better
understand Yamaha Motor’s business strategy.
Materials from the business briefing (July 3, 2013)
http://global.yamaha-motor.com/jp/ir/report/pdf/2013/Yamaha-motor_
Business_information_session_jp.pdf
Video of the business briefing
http://www.irbroadstreaming.net/ir/7272/jigyou/#index=1
Disclosure Policy
http://global.yamaha-motor.com/jp/ir/policy/
Dividend Policy
http://global.yamaha-motor.com/jp/ir/shareholder/dividend/
For Investors (index page)
http://global.yamaha-motor.com/jp/ir/
Information for shareholders and investors is
available on the websites below
IR website
Shareholders
and Investors
A Global Procurement and Sales Network based on a
Spirit of Cooperation and Fairness
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