Reforms to Raise Productivity
First written in FY2019. 11 of 15 entries say "Advanced", first in FY2020-Q1. Latest entry: FY2024.
28 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- FY2024RestatedAnnual report
「The company also continued consolidating administrative center locations to centralize routine operations, while pursuing the digitization of on-site work, operational efficiency and improvements in operational quality.」
We have continued to improve productivity and quality by consolidating the administrative centre and digitising on-site operations. - FY2024-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「While advancing the centralisation of bases at the administrative centre to consolidate general administrative functions, we also pursued the digitisation of on-site operations and operational efficiency improvements」
To improve productivity, we have continued to centralise bases at the administrative centre and digitise on-site operations. - FY2023AdvancedAnnual report
「The company also began expanding its administrative centers and consolidating locations to centralize routine operations, as well as digitizing on-site work, in an effort to improve operational efficiency and further enhance operational quality.」
In addition to consolidating general administrative functions and centralising bases at the administrative centre, we began digitising on-site operations, broadening our productivity improvement measures. - FY2023-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「We implemented initiatives to expand the functions of the administrative centre, whose consolidation of general administrative functions had been under way since the previous fiscal year, and are working to improve operational efficiency and further enhance operational quality.」
At the administrative centre that consolidates general administrative functions, we implemented an expansion of its functions and are advancing efficiency improvements and enhancements to operational quality. - FY2022AdvancedAnnual report
「In addition to pursuing and expanding efforts to improve operational efficiency, including by opening and expanding an administrative centre to consolidate general administrative functions, and aiming to further improve operational quality, we reviewed operations by packaging the finance, human resources and customs-clearance systems, while also working to improve efficiency and reduce labour requirements by making meetings and other activities paperless and web-based.」
Specific progress was made in expanding the administrative centre, packaging the finance, human resources and customs-clearance systems, and making operations paperless and web-based. - FY2022-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「In the transportation business, volumes handled increased from the same period of the previous year, reflecting the recovery trend in the movement of stored cargo and domestic freight transportation volumes, among other factors. As a result, operating revenue from the transportation business was ¥9,806,679 thousand, up 5.4% year on year, and segment profit was ¥779,156 thousand, up 20.4%, partly due to the effects of rate revisions and more efficient consolidation of cargo shipments.」
Through fee revisions and more efficient consolidation of cargo loads, operating revenue in the transport business increased 5.4% year on year and segment income increased 20.4%, alongside a recovery in handled volumes. - FY2022-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「In the transportation business, volumes handled increased from the same period of the previous year, reflecting the recovery trend in the movement of stored cargo and domestic freight transportation volumes, among other factors. As a result, operating revenue from the transportation business was ¥6,473,348 thousand, up 6.2% year on year, and segment profit was ¥530,052 thousand, up 25.0%, partly due to the effects of rate revisions and more efficient consolidation of cargo shipments.」
Through more efficient consolidation of cargo loads and fee revisions, operating revenue in the transport business increased 6.2% year on year and segment income increased 25.0%. - FY2022-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「In the transportation business, volumes handled increased from the same period of the previous year, reflecting the recovery trend in the movement of stored cargo and domestic freight transportation volumes, among other factors. As a result, operating revenue from the transportation business was ¥3,261,708 thousand, up 6.4% year on year, and segment profit was ¥264,967 thousand, up 18.5%, partly due to the effects of rate revisions.」
Through measures including fee revisions, operating revenue in the transport business increased 6.4% year on year and segment income increased 18.5%. The effects of improvements in productivity and profitability were demonstrated by new quarterly results. - FY2021AdvancedAnnual report
「We worked to ensure financial soundness, including by controlling fixed costs.」
Regarding reforms to achieve higher productivity, the disclosure cites the control of fixed costs and overall expense reductions as results achieved. - FY2021-Q1Added a review of fixed costs and other expensesAnnual report
「In addition to pursuing further improvements in operational quality, the company reviewed fixed costs and other expenses to respond to the challenging business environment, worked to promote environmentally conscious green management and improve management efficiency.」
As a means of reforming the business to achieve higher productivity, a review of fixed costs and other expenses was newly specified to address the challenging operating environment. - FY2020AdvancedAnnual report
「Operating revenue declined as volumes handled decreased, but segment profit increased despite higher labor costs, due in part to more efficient dispatch and delivery operations, negotiations to revise freight rates, and a focus on sales activities including highly profitable new business development.」
Through more efficient delivery and dispatch operations, negotiations on fee revisions and sales activities including new business development, income in the transport business increased 7.7% year on year. - FY2020-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「In the transportation business, operating revenue declined as volumes handled decreased. Despite higher labor costs, the company’s continued focus on rate revisions, more efficient delivery and dispatch operations, and sales activities resulted in operating revenue of ¥9,544,360 thousand, down 1.4% year on year, and segment profit of ¥797,020 thousand, up 4.2%.」
Through more efficient delivery and dispatch operations and a focus on sales activities, segment income in the transport business increased 4.2% year on year even as handled volumes and operating revenue declined. - FY2020-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「Following fee revisions, more efficient delivery and dispatch operations, and strengthened sales activities, operating revenue in the transport business was ¥6,331.469 million, down 1.2% year on year, while segment income was ¥530.030 million, up 2.4% year on year.」
The disclosure states that fee revisions, more efficient delivery and dispatch operations, and strengthened sales activities resulted in a 2.4% year-on-year increase in segment income in the transport business. - FY2020-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「The effects of fee revisions and more efficient delivery and dispatch operations have begun to emerge」
The disclosure states that efficiency improvements in delivery and dispatch operations produced effects that led to an increase in segment income in the transport business. - FY2019First statedAnnual report
「●Reforms to achieve higher productivity」
Improving productivity was identified as an independent concrete initiative under the sixth medium-term management plan.