NST works through collaboration between The DX Promotion Department and each Business Division to drive operational innovation utilizing ICT, and the progress is regularly reported at Management Meetings as promoting DX strategy throughout the company. We also focus on developing DX human resources by conducting programs such as training sessions for developing practical DX leadership, to develop human resources who can play an active role in the workplace. Young employees are showing strong motivation for growth through DX training, leading them to take on new challenges. It is essential that we quickly incorporate the potential and advancements of DX into our business activities. We will continue to position our DX strategy as one of our main management issues.

President and Representative Director
Shinichi Nakamura

The DX Promotion Department places its members in each business division, and studies and carries out business processes improvements utilizing ICT. It combines DX measures with a variety of tools to support comprehensive operational improvements for the company.
To ensure operations are integrated with management, the DX project roadmap is regularly reported to the Management Meeting.

Since becoming a subsidiary of Nippon Steel in April 2023, we have been carrying out collaborations with Nippon Steel. We are digitalizing steel distribution through steel DX measures, and are working to optimize the entire supply chain from manufacturers to steel processing companies and final customers, and to achieve innovations in distribution.
In particular, DX is playing an important role from the system perspective in initiatives to improve added value and our ability to adapt at all stages leading to manufacturers, trading companies, processing companies (coil centers), and customers. This corresponds to the “vertical expansion” part of the Nippon Steel strategy “Developing a robust business structure with vertical and horizontal expansion.” In the future, we will continue to utilize DX measures to maximize our sales synergy, and will actively carry out discussions and coordination for creating new value and improving operational efficiency.
As specific measures, four systems were introduced by the first half of FY2023: improved order entry system (SPOD), integrated inventory management system (N-SCM), new coil centers system (EXCS®), and information exchange portal (NST Business Online). In the future, we will actively work to further expand their functions and deploy them at greater numbers of sites.

To make full use of the systems and carry out business transformation, training of human resources who have digital skills is of great importance regardless of position or workplace. For this reason, we have carried out lectures for executives, managers, and others, conducted training of DX leaders for each workplace, and conducted ICT tool training for all employees. We also recommend that all employees take the IT passport test.
In order to improve the ICT literacy of all employees, we will continue to work for enhancement of ICT literacy for all employees, and for a mindset shift among executives and senior management, driven by the DX leaders in each workplace.