Materialities |
Risks and Opportunities |
FY 2024 KPI |
Solve social challenges through global business |
- Expanding sales of products and services in advanced technology fields
- Strengthen Technology Development Capability
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- [Risks]
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- Declining predominance and sales for our products
- Obsolete business models due to the arrival of new technologies
- [Opportunities]
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- Increasing predominance for our products in advanced technology fields
- Capturing new markets through new Environmental Creation Technology
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- Increased sales of products and services, mainly in advanced technology fields
Consolidated Net Sales: 65 billion yen
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- Strengthening global marketing
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- [Risks]
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- Impact on profits due to global political and economic anxiety
- [Opportunities]
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- Global profit growth and stable profits
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- Improvement of regional sales makeup with consideration of geopolitical risk
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- Creation and expansion of new businesses that contribute to solutions for social issues
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- [Risks]
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- Stunted growth due to reliance on existing businesses
- Declining stakeholder assessments
- [Opportunities]
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- Securing new sources of profit
- Improving stakeholder assessments
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- Creation and cultivation of new business
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Provide products and services with responsibility |
- Strengthening the global supply chain (stable procurement)
- Sustainable procurement
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- [Risks]
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- Impact on procurement and profits due to global political and economic anxiety
- Human rights violations in the supply chain
- [Opportunities]
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- Achieving stable procurement
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- Establishment of a supply chain that considers geopolitical risk and sustainable procurement
- Optimization of inventory assets
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- Utilizing technologies (IT, AI)
- Strengthening our core plants (production functions) and enacting manufacturing innovations
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- [Risks]
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- Losing opportunities due to prolonged lead times
- Variations in product quality and declining product predominance
- [Opportunities]
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- Expanding manufacturing capabilities, standardizing product quality, shortening lead times, and improving product predominance
- Improving labor productivity through the use of IT and AI
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- Expansion of domestic production capacity
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- Increasing customer satisfaction
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- [Risks]
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- Declining predominance and profits for our products
- Declining points of contact with customers in advanced technology fields
- [Opportunities]
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- Increasing predominance for our products through differentiation with competitors
- Capturing customers’ needs in advanced technology fields
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- Providing new products and services that serve customer needs
- Expansion of preventive maintenance services (network services)
- Global deployment of QMS (Quality Management System)
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Be environmentally friendly |
- Measures to Combat Global Warming
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- [Risks]
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- Declining product sales due to inability to adapt to environmental regulations
- Higher energy costs
- [Opportunities]
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- Propagation of products and services with enhanced environmental performance
- Increase in sales for the environmental preservation business and plant cultivation equipment business
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- [Risks]
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- Declining social assessments
- [Opportunities]
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- Increasing sales in the environmental preservation business and biodiversity business
- Improving social assessments
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Securing and Cultivating Diverse Human Resources |
- Creating work satisfaction and improving engagement
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- [Risks]
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- Worsening of corporate culture
- Declining labor productivity and outflows of personnel
- [Opportunities]
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- Improved vitality in the organization, labor productivity, and motivation
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- Sharing and transparency for corporate philosophy/vision
- Updating management style, 1on1 meetings
- Reforms to the human resource evaluation system
- Implementation of engagement surveys; improvements to overall results compared to last fiscal year
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- Providing employees with opportunities to grow and shine
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- [Risks]
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- Declining adaptability to change due to obsolete personnel skills and a shortage of specialized expertise
- Declining capacity of the company to maintain sustained growth
- [Opportunities]
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- Further growth driven by highly capable personnel
- Continuous training of core personnel
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- Enhancing support systems in skill development
- Training of the next generation of upper management; holding Junior Board meetings
- Securing and training global personnel and DX personnel
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- Diversity & Inclusion
(women, seniors, foreign nationals, people with disabilities, LGBTQ)
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- [Risks]
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- Declining capacity for innovation due to personnel characteristics and skill imbalances
- Declining social assessments due to slow response
- [Opportunities]
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- Innovation from creative organizations
- Improving social assessments
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- Training women for management positions
Percentage of female managers: 10% or more
- Promoting disability hires
Rate of disability hires: 2.5% or more
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- Respect for human rights, ensuring employee health and safety
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- [Risks]
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- Loss of social credibility
- Declining labor productivity and outflows of personnel due to poor physical health
- [Opportunities]
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- Securing social credibility
- Improving labor productivity and securing excellent personnel
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- Implementation of harassment education: 1 or more times
- Promotion of initiatives to reduce workloads
- Establishing companywide policies for health management
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Enhancement of Group Governance |
- Fair and Transparent Management
(Corporate Governance / Compliance)
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- [Risks]
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- Loss of social credibility, declining corporate value
- [Opportunities]
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- Securing transparency in decision-making and sustained growth
- Securing stakeholder trust
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- Full compliance with the Corporate Governance Code
- Thorough permeation of the Code of Conduct and Behavior Guidelines in the group both domestically and internationally
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