Logistics Unit

The Logistics Unit receives and accepts raw materials, stores products in warehouses, and releases the products from the warehouses.

Logistics Unit

Storing Raw Materials and Products in the Warehouses and Releasing Them from the Warehouses

Receiving raw materials

Receiving raw materials

Raw materials to be used for manufacture arrive from our business partners.

Low insect-luring illumination, automatic seat shutters, and air curtains

Low insect-luring illumination, automatic seat shutters, and air curtains

Each warehouse has equipment to protect raw materials and products from contamination by insects.

Accepting incoming raw materials

Accepting incoming raw materials

We check incoming raw materials to confirm that their items and quantities are exactly as ordered.

Printing internal management labels

Printing internal management labels

With a warehouse management system, we print out internal management labels to be affixed to the incoming raw materials.

Affixing the internal management labels

Affixing the internal management labels

We affix an internal management label to each packaging unit of the incoming raw materials.

Storing the raw materials in a high-rise warehouse

Storing the raw materials in a high-rise warehouse

We store the raw materials with management labels on them in a high-rise warehouse. Inside the high-rise warehouse, temperature is controlled appropriately.

High-rise warehouse

High-rise warehouse

This is how a high-rise warehouse looks like inside.
This one is as high as a five-story building.
The warehouse is computerized to store each raw material in a location from which it can be quickly retrieved.

Dispensing raw materials to the manufacturing area and receiving finished products <!-- -->

Dispensing raw materials to the manufacturing area and receiving finished products

Raw materials allocated based on a production plan by an enterprise resource planning system are dispensed to the manufacturing area through a passing room.
Finished products are received in the reverse route and stored in warehouses.

Shipping products

Shipping products

We ship products to customers mainly by truck.

Exterior of Buildings

Exterior of our logistics centers

Exterior of our logistics centers

Daito has seven logistics centers that receive raw materials and ship products.

Outdoor hazardous material warehouses

Outdoor hazardous material warehouses

We place waste liquids and some raw materials in outdoor hazardous material warehouses.

Miscellaneous

"White Logistics" meeting

"White Logistics" meeting

We are making an active commitment to hazard prediction and “hiyari-hatto” (accident prevention in response to reported near-miss cases) action and remediation and preventative maintenance (PM) action so that we are always fully prepared to ensure safe and reliable operations. We are also carrying out other actions to ensure the optimal functioning of our distribution system, including arranging the operation of trucks in conjunction with product distribution plans.