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A Global Procurement and Sales Network based
on a Spirit of Cooperation and Fairness
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, 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, and made a video of the
briefing publicly available on the Company’s website to enable all
shareholders and investors better understand Yamaha Motor’s business
strategy.
Materials from the business briefing (September 12, 2014)
http://global.yamaha-motor.com/ir/report/pdf/2014/Yamaha-motor_
Business_information_session_en.pdf
Video of the business briefing
http://youtu.be/Oih-M2a6hzM
Disclosure Policy
http://global.yamaha-motor.com/ir/policy/
Dividend Policy
http://global.yamaha-motor.com/ir/shareholder/dividend/
For Investors (index page)
http://global.yamaha-motor.com/ir/
Information for shareholders and investors is
available on the websites below
IR website
Shareholders
and Investors
Business
Partners
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