Constructing a Digital Management Platform
To contribute to the expansion of social innovation businesses and to the realization of digital management, we aim to build a digital management platform that will be shared throughout the Hitachi Group. Even as we expand our company scope and portfolio, this shared platform will provide information for growth and keep costs down.
We are continuously advancing the preparation of environments for accumulating and analyzing data, in order to expand the usage of data and produce business-related benefits.
By creating templates based on case examples of data utilization and associated knowledge, in addition to distributing this information both inside and outside the company, we will promote DX as part of standard operations and develop and distribute DX solutions that are linked to shared ERP#2 platforms. Through these efforts, we will contribute to the strengthening of managerial effectiveness and business competitiveness.
Improving the efficiency and accuracy of data analysis is indispensable for creating benefits through the expansion of data utilization. We are creating templates based on the knowledge accumulated from the results of projects within the Hitachi Group, and are preparing a Lumada internal environment as a platform for widely distributing and re-using this information. The benefits generated apply beyond the Hitachi Group. By providing templates to customers outside the Hitachi Group, we are also aiming to contribute to the business departments.
Lumada's internal environment is used in a wide variety of operational areas, such as sales, procurement, production, maintenance, and management. We have recorded a cumulative total of 352 cases where this environment has been used. This total is about 2.8 times the number compared to the cumulative total of 124 cases recorded in FY 2018.
We are developing and distributing DX Solutions in coordination with a shared ERP platform in order to further promote making business operations more standardized and efficient via DX. By unifying data sources, we will standardize the data collection and analysis work that is required for individual businesses and operations.
■DX solutions:
KPI visualization: This solution visualizes information necessary for making business decisions, so the users will be able to speed up the process of formulating the departmental budget, identifying the business performance, and making forecasts.
Marketing DX: This solution leverages internal and external data (such as market and performance data) and automatically generates a forecast of expected orders and business performance. This helps speed up the process of making a business decision.
Manufacturing DX: This solution can be used to collect and analyze data and optimize EOL#4 management, product quality, and inventory assets. This helps improve product quality and add value, thereby contributing to improved business competitiveness.
