Ten years before the Great East Japan Earthquake, Seven-Eleven, the largest convenience store, introduced a new system to collect the damage status of stores in the event of a disaster so that stores in the disaster area will not run out of stock as much as possible. , We have started an initiative to lead to efficient delivery.

Seven-Eleven operates a system that can collectively grasp the location information of stores and trucks for delivery nationwide by GPS, but this spring, we will expand the functions.



Specifically, in the event of a disaster, the store will enter information such as whether it is possible to continue business on a smartphone and when it will be possible to resume business, and send it to the headquarters.



Based on this information and the location information of trucks, the headquarters aims to efficiently deliver products to stores that can operate and prevent out-of-stocks in the disaster area.



"Logistics is an indispensable infrastructure in the event of a disaster, and we want to understand the situation of stores and proceed with disaster response," said Nishimura De System Headquarters Manager of Seven-Eleven Japan.



In the distribution industry, Lawson is also expanding its efforts to efficiently deliver products as an infrastructure that supports the lives of disaster victims, such as the introduction of a system in which the headquarters of Lawson aggregates the damage situation in each region online.