Business process transformation at Mitsubishi Materials Corporation (MMC) is an activity to review and fundamentally optimize the essence of business. It goes beyond the narrow definition of "operational efficiency improvement."
Companies that engage in many businesses (conglomerates) are often said to suffer from slower decision making processes compared with specialized manufacturers and owner-operated businesses, but despite operating a number of businesses, MMC aims to be a highly functional and dynamic organization engaged in swift decision making.
Working under these policies, our Business Process Management Dept. (BPM Dept.) pursues four activities broadly categorized as (1) paperless and stamp-free processes, (2) eliminate, reduce and change (commonly called as "NHK", from the Japanese equivalents nakusu, herasu and kaeru), (3) communication and change in mindset, and (4) one-stop consultation services.
Specific initiatives in these areas are introduced below.
Mitsubishi Materials is working on ERP introduction to renew and standardize business processes, including domestic and overseas Group companies. Renewed and standardized accounting practices, which we had been pursuing on an advanced basis, entered operation at Mitsubishi Materials Corporation on a non-consolidated basis from the fiscal year ending March 2025. To ensure mission-critical business processes that enable improvements and greater sophistication on an integrated basis between business operations and IT, we pursued total optimization, creating and providing the financial statements data needed to make management decisions swiftly and without defects, and building mechanisms able to swiftly adapt to changes in the external environment (M&A, accounting systems, taxation systems, etc.). Going forward we plan to steadily roll out these processes to Group companies in Japan and overseas.
We have also begun efforts to renew and standardize order receive and sales processes, and plan to consider the current issues and ideal outcomes for management control, cost management, sales activities, inventory control and master management from the perspectives of both business operations and IT.