Optimization of Business Processes and Cost Structure through BPR

「The Group aims to achieve further business growth by improving profitability through thorough productivity gains in its existing businesses and expanding into new markets and customer segments.」

「The cloud migration rate for in-house systems reached 90% as of the end of March 2022, and we are presenting case studies based on these efforts at external events and universities, among other venues.」

「As part of efforts to improve the quality of business operations, we are replacing various in-house systems built on premises with cloud services. The cloud migration rate for in-house systems has reached 84% as of the end of December 2021, and we are presenting case studies based on the expertise gained through these efforts at external events and universities.」

「Although management efficiency initiatives improved the gross profit margin by 1.8 percentage points year on year, operating income fell to ¥313 million, down 62.8% year on year, due to increased research and development expenses and other costs related to developing new services such as HULFT Square.」

「Operating income and ordinary income increased as initiatives to improve productivity, including optimization of the system maintenance environment at data centers, expanded remote work, and the shift of events and business meetings online, proved effective, despite an increase in research and development expenses related to the next-generation linkage service platform.」

「Operating income and ordinary income increased as initiatives to improve productivity, including optimization of the system maintenance environment at data centers, expanded remote work, and the shift of events and business meetings online, proved effective.」

「Under the current conditions, the remote-work environment supporting our previous efforts to reform work practices and improve productivity has contributed to our performance by functioning effectively and enabling us to achieve high productivity.」

「As the next step, we will work to achieve a higher quality of business operations by building business processes premised on telework and mobile work, renewing the systems that support them, and enhancing KPI monitoring so that work progress and effectiveness can be tracked without conducting business face to face as in the past.」

「Against this backdrop, the Group is working to improve profitability through thorough productivity gains in the existing areas it has provided to date, including system development, data-processing services using data centers, and sales and support services for package products centered on the HULFT product range.」

「The company is advancing initiatives to improve profitability through thorough productivity gains in these existing areas, convert packaged products into service businesses, further expand globally, research and apply advanced technologies, including AI, IoT, big data, blockchain, RPA and cloud services, and develop personnel capable of advancing company-wide technology strategies.」

「The company is advancing initiatives to improve profitability through thorough productivity gains in these existing areas, convert packaged products into service businesses, further expand globally, research and apply advanced technologies, including AI, IoT, big data, blockchain, RPA and cloud services, and develop personnel capable of advancing company-wide technology strategies.」

「In addition to improving profitability through thorough productivity gains in these existing areas, we aim to achieve further business growth by converting package products into service businesses, expanding them further worldwide, researching and applying the latest technologies, including IoT, blockchain, RPA and AI, and developing personnel to drive company-wide technology strategy. We will expand our services to new markets and customers and provide existing customers with services incorporating new technologies.」

「In addition to improving profitability through thorough productivity gains in these existing areas, we aim to achieve further business growth by converting package products into service businesses, expanding them further worldwide, researching and applying the latest technologies, including IoT, blockchain, RPA and AI, and developing personnel to drive company-wide technology strategy. We will expand our services to new markets and customers and provide existing customers with services incorporating new technologies.」

「To date, we have provided system development, data-processing services using data centers, and sales and support services for package products centered on HULFT, while working to improve profitability through thorough productivity gains in these existing businesses. We are also actively pursuing the further global rollout of our package products, researching and applying the latest technologies, including IoT, blockchain and RPA (Robotic Process Automation), and developing personnel to drive company-wide technology strategy, with the aim of expanding more profitable businesses into new markets and serving new customers to achieve further growth.」

「The company will renew its training and development framework, enhance productivity monitoring, and establish new work styles and personnel systems at its new offices. It will introduce a new personnel system and an enhanced training and development programme framework to maximise human capital development and the effectiveness of training. It will also strongly promote the adoption of RPA in its internal business processes and work to improve productivity.」

「On the earnings side, research and development expenses increased as the company actively pursued proof-of-concept testing for delivery boxes using IoT and blockchain and the commercialisation of data analysis services. However, profitability improved as loss recognition related to the cancellation of development projects that occurred in the same period of the previous year subsided and higher development productivity also contributed, resulting in operating profit of ¥46 million for the first nine months of the current consolidated fiscal year, compared with an operating loss of ¥240 million in the same period of the previous year.」

「On the earnings side, operating profit in the card systems business for the first half of the current consolidated fiscal year increased 77.7% year on year to ¥1,890 million, mainly because profitability improved as a result of lower operating costs in information processing services, among other factors.」

「On the earnings side, operating profit for the first quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year increased 73.0% year on year to ¥926 million, mainly because profitability improved as a result of lower operating costs in information processing services, among other factors.」

「The company also recognises clarification of its business strategy, optimisation of its cost structure, and renewal of its business platform and organisational culture as important challenges.」

「Through the promotion of BPR (business process re-engineering), the company will review internal processes and organisational functions, while seeking to transition to an appropriate cost structure by renewing its IT infrastructure and optimising its data centres as part of this review.」