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also enabling NTN to streamline operations through standardization and visualization of finished product shipping processes at all of its warehouses and plants across Japan .

Background

Since it was founded , the NTN Group has embraced its ‘ Founders Spirit ’.

This comprises a ‘ Frontier Spirit ’ which encourages it to keep challenging and a ‘ Coexistence and Coprosperity Spirit ’ which encourages it to develop together with society .

With this in mind , it has expanded globally in line with its corporate philosophy of ‘ We shall contribute to international society through creating new technologies and developing new products .’

NTN will use Infor WMS as its supply chain execution solution to combine warehouse management , labor management , transportation management and thirdparty logistics ( 3PL ) billing management into a single integrated and rational business process for the entire supply chain . In addition to helping achieve on-time shipping and delivery to customers , Infor WMS is

NTN is working to enhance the business foundations that underpin its operations so that it can continue delivering sustainable growth . It will do this by not only enhancing its fundamental technologies and core products , while expanding into new fields that take advantage of the core technologies it has developed over the years , but by also Driving Digital Transformation ( DX ) to achieve more sophisticated business management and create new business models .

NTN adopted its previous core business system in the 1980s , but the system had aged to a point where operation and maintenance had reached their limits . In addition , the system was seriously impacting Business Continuity due to a shortage of engineers , software updates not being implemented and security risks . NTN also had to address limited traceability of business transactions ( including product movement records ), inefficient inbound / outbound operations at its domestic

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