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Policies on Stable Product Supply • We strive to shorten production lead-time and improve planning and execution accuracy by using IT to optimize the supply chain (procurement-production-logistics-sales-service). • We build good relationships with component suppliers to ensure stable procurement. • We maintain the flexibility needed to address various risks involved in manufacturing by: • building a production system with at least two production sites for each product; • producing multiple products and improving capacity for high-mix/low-volume production at each Casio Group production site • maintaining in-house production and inlining of key devices and components.

Supply network is highly responsive to changes in demand Casio uses supply chain management (SCM) at production sites in response to changes in market conditions and demand for high-mix/low-volume product offerings, seeking to speed up the planning cycle and provide a stable supply of salable products. Specific initiatives include efforts to standardize work processes such as parts delivery controls, materials warehouse management, and manufacturing process management.

Casio aims to achieve integrated manufacturing (total optimization) by using the same systems and same methods at different production sites. These initiatives are necessary to increase shipment precision, shorten production lead times, and shrink unused assets, and are already becoming mission-critical systems. The timepiece business in particular, which conducts production at multiple sites, in Yamagata (Japan), China, and Thailand, must respond rapidly to the changing environment in each region. Smooth operation of SCM enables the deployment of standardized IT tools and production equipment as well as the appropriate distribution of supply capacity. Casio will move to multisite production in other product categories in the future and build an even more sophisticated SCM system.

Casio's new plant in Nakhonratchasima, Thailand, is located on high ground, making it less susceptible to floods. Casio has added the new plant to its existing major production sites with a view to enhancing business continuity planning (BCP) and diversifying risk through global manufacturing. Casio will continue to expand the plant’s production scale and functions.

In fiscal 2015, Casio started production of calculators and electronic dictionaries at a new third plant on the site, in order to provide a more stable, high-mix supply of products. Spu2 X 2.0 Download there.

CiteScore 2016: 4.48 CiteScoreTracker 2017: 1.41 (Updated Monthly) For the latest news, publication alerts and debates The aim of Supply Chain Management: An International Journal is to push the boundaries of supply chain research and practice. Accordingly, research findings must demonstrate international relevance and global impact to both theory and practice. Research papers and case studies submitted to SCMij will only be considered if they contribute to extending supply chain knowledge beyond a dyadic perspective. The challenges posed by globalisation and rapidly changing technology trends directly affects supply chain design and management. Contemporary supply chain practices have to be responsive, proactive, integrated and information driven when managing the components of the supply chain.