Expanding Overseas Supplier Sourcing and Procurement Support
First written in FY2022. 4 of 10 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: FY2025-H1.
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- FY2025-H1DroppedAnnual report
「Linkers Trading had ended its handling of recycled aluminum, its main product in the previous fiscal year. As its importance had consequently declined, its disclosure has been omitted from the six-month consolidated accounting period.」
Following the end of its recycled aluminum business, Linkers Trading was omitted from disclosure from the six-month consolidated accounting period because its importance had declined. - FY2024ReframedAnnual report
「Linkers Trading had previously focused on supporting the procurement of recycled aluminum, but ended its handling of recycled aluminum at the end of the fiscal year because profitability had deteriorated. Going forward, it plans to work with Linkers Sourcing's overseas sourcing service to provide procurement support with a greater focus on profitability.」
The company ended procurement support focused on recycled aluminum and shifted its policy toward procurement support focused on profitability in coordination with Linkers Sourcing's overseas sourcing service. - FY2024-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「Against this business backdrop, the exploration and matching service launched a new overseas sourcing service through Linkers Sourcing and Linkers Marketing at the beginning of the fiscal year to expand its sourcing network going forward. Sales resources were allocated to launching the initiative, and the number of overseas sourcing projects progressed broadly in line with the budget, showing a certain level of results. However, because the sales staff hired during the period took substantially longer than expected to become fully operational in securing domestic projects, sales activity volume, a leading indicator of order acquisition, declined. As a result, the number of projects initiated was 52, below the 67 recorded in the same period of the previous year.」
The number of overseas sourcing projects progressed broadly in line with the budget, producing a certain level of results. On the other hand, delays in the ramp-up of sales staff for domestic projects reduced the number of projects initiated from 67 in the same period of the previous year to 52. - FY2024-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Linkers Sourcing and Linkers Marketing have also begun to see gradual results from their overseas sourcing sales activities, which have been under way since the previous fiscal year,」
The company continues to state that the overseas sourcing sales activities and their results since the previous fiscal year are beginning to emerge, but no new specific milestones have been provided. - FY2024-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「Although the overseas sourcing sales activities undertaken since the previous fiscal year have gradually begun to produce results」
The company stated for the first time that the overseas sourcing sales activities undertaken since the previous fiscal year had begun to produce results. The scale of the results was not quantified. - FY2023RestatedAnnual report
「Against the backdrop of major trend changes, particularly among large companies, including stronger social demands such as decarbonization and supply chain restructuring in response to rising geopolitical risks from conflicts and other factors, we are also working to build an overseas network by sourcing new overseas suppliers.」
The policy of sourcing overseas suppliers and building a network, including in ASEAN, East Asia and India, is continuing. - FY2023-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Against this business backdrop, the exploration and matching service launched a new overseas sourcing service through Linkers Sourcing and Linkers Marketing at the beginning of the fiscal year to expand its sourcing network going forward. However, because sales resources were allocated to launching the initiative, the number of projects initiated declined to 145, compared with 194 in the same period of the previous year.」
Efforts continued after the launch of the overseas sourcing service, but the allocation of sales resources to the launch reduced the number of projects initiated year on year. - FY2023-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「We launched overseas sourcing, a new initiative for the fiscal year, and are working to expand our sourcing network going forward.」
The company progressed from its previous policy of building an overseas network to the launch phase of overseas sourcing as a new initiative for the fiscal year. - FY2023-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「Linkers Trading, which has been engaged in sourcing suppliers of recycled aluminum in response to the government's stronger efforts toward carbon neutrality, continued to perform steadily from the previous fiscal year.」
Efforts to source overseas and new suppliers in response to carbon neutrality and changes in supply chains are continuing. - FY2022First statedAnnual report
「Against the backdrop of major trend changes, particularly among large companies, including stronger social demands such as decarbonization and supply chain restructuring in response to rising geopolitical risks from conflicts and other factors, we are also working to build an overseas network by sourcing new overseas suppliers. This enables us to provide agile support using our network both in Japan and overseas.」
We will work with local partners, primarily in ASEAN, East Asia and India, to identify procurement sources in Japan and overseas.