There were several problems in distribution & transportation section of Daido Steel Co., Ltd.. Some of them were “old-fashioned shipping work”, “increase of customer's demands”, “scattered small medium type warehouses”, and “increase of distribution costs”.
And it was an urgent necessity to down the distribution costs and meet the customer's demands.
Therefore, it was decided to make “Basic plan of distribution improvement”, and set up the targets which include “settling of just-in-time delivery”, “cutting down the distribution costs” and “total distribution improvement, from order reception to delivery”.
The purpose of “Distribution control system” is to meet the needs of customers and distribution section by improving following items.
Improvement of shipping work at plants: Locating products, checking of shipping products.
Improvement of warehouses work: Simplification of loading and unloading dataentry into a computer.
Improvement of total distribution: Strengthening the support to sales division. Sharing information with production control system. Improvement in support of distribution subsidiary companies.
Now, each system is up and running favorably.
After this, we will go ahead toward a better control system that is closely connected with “Customers-Sales division-Production-Delivery”, according to the system based on “Basic plan of distribution improvement”.
