Introducing Nichirei's Management Cycle

A major component of the Nichirei Group's management system is self-management based on Japan Quality Awards. Our holding company and business units use PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycles to continually improve their management.

* The Japan Quality Award was established in 1995 by the Japan Productivity Center for Socio-Economic Development (JPC-SED). It was modeled after the self-assessment theory of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (commonly known as the MB Award) in the United States, and modified to accommodate Japanese management practices.

Each group company creates an organizational profile describing prevailing business conditions and ideas for achieving management goals. This serves as the basis for drafting a medium-term plan, currently covering a three-year span. The Nichirei Strategy Council discusses and forms a consensus regarding each year's strategies, including proposals for management policies and budgets. At the end of each year, the proposed management policies and budgets for the following year are revealed at a Commitment Conference and are shared as common goals by all divisions of all group companies. Each fiscal quarter, a Monitoring Committee checks on the progress being made toward achieving these goals. If delays or problems are found, the committee considers measures for getting progress back on track.