DX INITIATIVES DX Initiatives
Management Message
Chairman and Representative Director Hiroyuki Tanaka
As digital technologies continue to progress and spread, the Sun-Wa Technos Group market environment and the nature of our business are undergoing dramatic changes.Adapting to these changes will require more flexibility and creativity than ever before, and digital transformation (DX) will play a vital role.
As laid out in the Sun-Wa New Stage 2024 (SNS2024) medium-term management plan based on our long-term Sun-Wa Vision 2030, we announced our basic policy to improve operational efficiency and value provided through digital transformation (DX), with the implementation of DX measures centered on the DX promotion project as a part of our management strategy.
Our specific measures consist of four components: realizing the swift visualization of key management indicators, improving operational efficiency, enhancing customer value by making data usage more sophisticated, and training and recruiting DX talent. These DX measures and implementation activities are collectively called Sunwa Digital Transformation (SDX), a unified name for the unified actions we take as a company with the aim of increasing corporate value.
SDX - Specific Measures
Realize the swift visualization of key management indicators
- Efficient aggregation of global data
- Enhance the management dashboard
Improve operational efficiency
- Digitalize document output from the core system
- Enhance application and approval workflows
- Automate operations using RPA
- Centralize information, standardize and aggregate concentrate work processes,
Enhance customer value by making data usage more sophisticated
- Visualization of KPIs of Customer Segments strategy
- Make utilization of sales support tools (SFA) more sophisticated
- Build a technical information database
Train and recruit DX talent
- Implement training to enhance the IT literacy of all employees
- Cultivate DX talent through reskilling
- Recruit appropriate talent
DX Implementation System
Building an Environment to Achieve the DX Strategy
Sun-Wa Technos plans to focus investment on the following measures in order to achieve SDX.
We also plan to invest in upgrades to the existing core system to streamline operations.
- Enhancement of the management dashboard
- Enhancing SFA utilization
- Data centralization; standardization of operational processes
- Task automation via RPA
DX Strategy Achievement Indicators
We aim to implement SDX measures and thereby achieve the target values laid out in the 11th medium-term management plan.
Since each initiative contributes to increasing corporate income (net sales) and reducing SG&A (selling, general and administrative expenses), improving operating profit is ultimately a metric for the level of achievement of the DX strategy across the company.
Indicators used to measure initiatives’ achievement level such as the number of projects secured and internal system usage status are not public information, but progress on these matters is monitored within the DX promotion project.