Books: The 'Invisible Cost' Reduction That Profitable Companies Always Implement!

Departmental collaboration cost reform advancing on a business flow basis!

One of the reasons why productivity in Japan's manufacturing industry has stagnated is that it has not been able to establish a new production system suitable for small-batch, diverse production. Japan was able to achieve the world's highest productivity based on improvement activities, but conversely, when significant reforms were needed, it attempted to respond with conventional improvements, which prevented it from making substantial changes to the production system. This book refers to the structural loss costs arising from the distortions in Japan's manufacturing and factory management systems as "invisible costs." It explains how these "invisible costs" are causing Japanese companies to become high-cost entities and how the lack of change in the production system has led to a complete stagnation in labor productivity, discussing the causes and solutions to these issues.

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