NTT and Mitsubishi Corporation Business Alliance Digital Technology Utilization December 20, 19:53
NTT and a major trading company, Mitsubishi Corporation, entered into a business alliance to use digital technology to improve business efficiency. First, we will work to improve the logistics efficiency of Mitsubishi Corporation group companies.
According to the announcement, both companies will aim to improve efficiency by digitizing various businesses by combining the technologies of the digital field such as AI = artificial intelligence possessed by NTT and know-how of Mitsubishi Corporation.
First, we will work to improve efficiency in the logistics field, where labor shortages are serious, and make the management easy by sharing product codes that were scattered among food manufacturers and wholesale / retail companies of the MC Group.
In addition, AI plans to create a mechanism for efficiently predicting demand and producing products.
In addition, the two companies will invest in Dutch company “Hia”, which provides location information services around the world, to provide information for reducing domestic waste such as truck driving routes in Japan.
NTT President Jun Sawada said at the press conference, "I want to promote changes in people's lives and the industry itself."
Moreover, Takehiko Kakiuchi, president of Mitsubishi Corporation, said, “At first, it is an initiative of one company, but in the future we want to make it a mechanism that can be expanded to the entire industry and used by many people.”