I had the pleasure of meeting with executives at Casio, a Kinaxis customer, while in Japan two weeks ago. During our visit, we learned about Casio’s IT and supply chain plans. Quite impressive.

Casio’s CIO has chartered a course to ensure that their IT organization is a global leader. He’s established objective criteria for evaluating the impact on the business and benchmarked themselves against both Japanese and global leaders. They’re really making incredibly contribution to their business and have plans to continue to excel.

Likewise, they’ve gone through tremendous change in their supply chain strategy as well. A couple of years ago they came to the realization that change was happening so fast that they needed to really empower their people with the ability to “solve today’s problems today.” This is where we came in. The CIO had a vision that to respond to change you must involve people - and these people need to be armed with up-to-date information and tools to act on that information.

They’ve seen multiple years of continually improving revenues with simultaneously declining inventories as just one measure of their success in transforming the way their supply chain works. Casio gets it.

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