Improving Store Productivity Through Multi-Skilling and Work-Style Reform
First written in FY2018. 3 of 7 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: FY2024-Q1.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2025: 3 of 31 companies on the "Worse" side.
14 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- FY2024-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The company has continued to work toward developing a multiskilled workforce through multi-job assignments.」
The company continues to use multi-job assignments to develop a multiskilled workforce as a measure to improve manufacturing efficiency and productivity in prepared foods. - FY2023RestatedAnnual report
「The company has worked to improve manufacturing efficiency by shifting to high-volume production of individual items and to develop a multiskilled workforce by promoting multi-job assignments.」
The company continues to improve productivity in stores and the prepared-foods division through multiskilling, training, and mechanization and automation. - FY2021AdvancedAnnual report
「The company is continuously improving the efficiency of existing operations through initiatives including multiskilling, employee training, and labor-saving measures enabled by the introduction of equipment.」
The company continues to use multiskilling, training, and labor-saving equipment as measures to address labor shortages and rising labor costs and to improve store productivity. - FY2020AdvancedAnnual report
「The company is also working to strengthen store operations by sharing and horizontally deploying best practices from each initiative, including the multiskilling initiative, which improves operational efficiency through cooperation among employees across departmental boundaries, and examples of committee activities led mainly by community employees.」
The company is extending the multiskilling initiative into post-integration store operations by linking it with cross-departmental cooperation, community committees, and the sharing and horizontal deployment of best practices. - FY2019AdvancedAnnual report
「The initiative to develop a multiskilled workforce in which employees perform 2 or 3 roles each is being advanced through the horizontal deployment of best practices, contributing to the creation of stores operated with a customer-first focus.」
The multiskilling initiative has progressed beyond the continued use of work schedules and cross-departmental operations to the horizontal deployment of best practices among stores. - FY2019-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The company also worked to improve management efficiency by strengthening a system that allocates the necessary labor hours during the necessary time periods using work schedules, and by promoting work-style reform across departmental boundaries.」
The company continues to improve management efficiency by allocating labor hours by time period through work schedules and promoting work-style reform across departments. - FY2018First statedAnnual report
「The company is using work schedules and promoting work-style reform to achieve a multiskilled workforce in which employees perform 2 or 3 roles each.」
The company describes, for the first time as a standalone initiative, measures combining employee multiskilling, the use of work schedules, and work-style reform to improve store productivity and working conditions.