A variety of risks have been on the rise, including natural disasters, infectious diseases, cyber terrorism, and chronic labor shortages. Against this backdrop, NX GROUP, which supports the global supply chain that is a foundation for society, regards improving the continuity, efficiency, and soundness of the supply chain and making it more resilient as key issues.
This Group aims for continuous delivery in an unbreakable suply chain through such initiatives as managing risks to prevent them from becoming manifest, managing crises to improve business continuity in emergencies, and making logistics more efficient by harmonzing human and digital resources.
NX GROUP is proactively taking on the challenges of business reform and business creation through the adoption of digital technologies with the goal of deploying highly expert know-how throughout the Group to grow together.
In fiscal 2023, we carried out a usage study of Magellan Blocks from Groovenauts, whose strengths lie in the use of AI and quantum technologies.
Our Group in March 2024 made an investment in Groovenauts.The Group is looking to optimize its personnel, vehical operations, and warehousing. At the same time, we are also looking into its application toward, for example, choosing optimal modes in light of customer production plans and demand forecasts, as well as the creation of new value based on the data collected.
Going forward, our plan is to share best practices within and outside the company regarding business reform and business creation; identify those domains and methods for making great contributions toward productivity improvements; and conducting verification tests for applications to similar products.
Thanks to employees who have newly acquired the needed specialized skills becoming engaged, being valued, and handling DX in a distributed, autonomous fashion, we have been aiming to become a corporate group with harmonized human and digital resources and are promoting activities to train and initiate human resources for promoting DX.
In fiscal 2023, we defined four types of DX human resources for promoting DX. Furthermore, a new DX human resources training program was launched for the Group’s 58,000 employees.
In fiscal 2024, we will expand the scale of the DX Project Leader Training Program, which is one of our DX Human Resources Training rograms. Beyond this, we are also looking into deploying it globally and implementing training to nurture other DX human resources.
Furthermore, to spread DX throughout the Group, we have createda Group portal website and are sharing within NX GROUP a variety of knowledge, information, and examples of initiatives with regard to DX. Still further, we will continue to make efforts to accelerate the creation of innovations by stimulating communities. Theseefforts include the creation of “DX for ALL,” a DX community whose objective is the interactive sharing of information and exchange, and our efforts toward sharing knowledge, exchanging views, and creating business ideas.
Please refer to the Sustainability Data Book [PDF 7,879KB] for more information on our other initiatives against this Material Issue.
