| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1993: ¥2,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The manufacturer enters the distribution business. Vertical integration, however, makes it impossible to enjoy the adavantage given by the distributor as a financier. This is a cotradiction. Information resolves the contradiction.
The assembly manufacturers in the passenger car industry and consumer electronics & domestic electric appalliances industry have changed to informed forecast ( 'Naiji' in Japanese with the informal value) to their suppliers in order to connect the suppliers and distributors.
The top manufacturer in the consumer electronics & domestic electric appliances industry changed its method of transaction between it and its local sales subsidiaries (MLSS) in 1991. It changed settlement of the transaction to one where it settles the transaction when the MLSS has sold the commodity to the retailer. As a result, its MLSS has no commodity stock, which leads to synchronisation between production and distribution. This change in transaction has occured in the semi-conductor & related industry and the passenger car industry, both of which the assembly manufacturer is the channel leader in, since then.
The study is based on the survery of manufacturers of iorn & steel, passenger car, silicon wafer, semi-conductor, consumer electronics & domestic electric appliances, apparel, processed food, domestic detergent and cosmetics. It is also based on the survey of distributos including mass sale speciality stores and chained super markets which deal with the semi-conductors, passenger cars and consumer electronics & domestic electric appliances.
The paper, however, describes only the iron & steel industry and the passenger car industy. We will finish the study by March, 1996. The whole study will be published in a Journal 'Logistics Information Management', MCB University Press, in due course.
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