In the Copper & Copper Alloy business, we are building an integrated infrastructure that connects goods, money and information, and working on reforms to systematically achieve our ROIC target.
By developing an integrated infrastructure for information, we will maximize profit and reduce interest-bearing debt while achieving business reforms aimed at streamlining and enhancing cost control, such as by automating the collecting and aggregation of cost information, and conducting cost variance analysis.
As a means of strengthening operations in the Metalworking Solutions business, we are working to build a global demand-supply management system for cemented carbide tools.
We have long faced operational challenges in responding quickly and appropriately to demand from end customers and distributors, and in developing optimal sales and production plans that reflect the supply-demand balance.
To address these challenges, we will work to develop more sophisticated demand, supply and logistics management systems utilizing DX. In addition to efforts to improve demand forecasting accuracy through demand management tools launched from the fiscal year ended March 2023, in the fiscal year ending March 2025 we will promote the introduction of supply management tools and implementation of trial operations at domestic sites.