Optimization of Inventory and Logistics Structure, Including Company-Operated Warehouses

「We continuously implemented logistics and sales initiatives to improve profitability and promoted efforts to improve profit margins.」

「We continued initiatives to improve profit, including containing increases in delivery costs and pursuing selectivity and concentration among partner warehouses.」

「We intend to improve customer convenience by strengthening management of partner warehouses, enabling products supplied by multiple companies to be delivered together, reducing delivery costs and allowing customers to receive their products all at once. We also intend to accelerate partnerships with new logistics companies to minimize the impact of recent increases in logistics costs charged by transport companies.」

「In terms of profit, we implemented various profit improvement measures, including developing private-label products and logistics initiatives. However, costs increased as higher procurement prices resulting from the weaker yen and higher energy prices, together with rising logistics costs, outweighed these measures, and performance remained below the level of the same period of the previous year.」

「In terms of profit, we implemented various profit improvement measures, including developing private-label products and logistics initiatives. However, costs increased as higher procurement prices resulting from the weaker yen and higher energy prices, together with rising logistics costs, outweighed these measures, and performance remained below the level of the same period of the previous year.」

「As a result of various profit-improvement initiatives, including containing increases in delivery costs, pursuing selectivity and concentration among partner warehouses, and adjusting selling prices to address the sharp depreciation of the yen, profit increased year on year.」

「Profit remained above the level of the same period of the previous year, owing to higher revenue and the continued development of private-label products and other profit-improvement initiatives, including logistics measures, in the E-commerce Marketing Business, as well as improving factory utilization rates in the Product Planning-Related Business as various COVID-19-related restrictions have been eased in Vietnam and elsewhere.」

「We continued to focus on developing our own private-label products and high-margin products, as we had previously, and worked actively on various profit improvement initiatives, including curbing delivery costs. As a result, profit increased year on year.」

「Although we continue to absorb the impact of higher shipping charges ourselves, our vigorous efforts to improve profit, including optimizing inventory allocation and containing increases in delivery costs, resulted in higher profit year on year.」

「Through vigorous efforts to improve profit, including optimizing inventory allocation and containing increases in delivery costs, we achieved record-high profit.」

「Although we continue to absorb the impact of higher shipping charges ourselves, the effects of various profit-improvement initiatives, including optimizing inventory allocation and containing increases in delivery costs, have begun to emerge, in addition to」

「Moreover, by implementing various measures in response to continued increases in home-delivery charges, quarterly revenue reached a record high.」

「In response to continued increases in home-delivery charges in recent years, we have promoted the diversification of logistics hubs and optimization of product allocation.」

「In response to continued increases in home-delivery charges in recent years, we promoted the diversification of logistics hubs and optimization of product allocation and, while considering the balance between revenue and profit, focused on passing some delivery charges on to product selling prices. As a result, we maintained increases in both revenue and profit.」

「To address continued increases in home-delivery charges, we promoted the diversification of logistics hubs and optimization of product allocation, while continuing to consider the balance between revenue and profit and focusing on measures to pass some delivery charges on to product selling prices.」

「We recognize that it is essential to strengthen management of partner warehouses so that our Group can centrally manage fast-selling products.」

「As measures to address sharply higher home-delivery charges, we promoted the diversification of logistics hubs and focused on measures including passing some of these charges on to selected products.」

「To address increases in home-delivery charges, we focused on building a structure to respond to higher costs from the second quarter cumulative period onward, including investing in the decentralization of delivery hubs across 10 locations in Japan and reviewing the allocation of products to appropriate locations.」

「We intend to optimize logistics, including by considering the ownership of company-operated warehouses, in order to improve the efficiency of future delivery costs and control the increase in inventory holdings.」