Sustainability Value Creation Model
Value Creation Model
The Marubun Group’s purpose is to “Contribute to a brighter future through technologies” By making the maximum use of resources and infrastructure cultivated over its 180-year history, and through the value cycle from “Discovery and development” to “Information production,” the Group provides services and solutions that leverage its unique strengths. By providing these services and solutions, we create social value, such as “Solutions to environmental and social issues” and “Contribution to the expansion of economic welfare,” as well as economic value, such as “Further accumulation of management resources” and “Further enhancement of management foundation.”
We aim to achieve sustainable growth through the circulation of our value-creation model and to ” Become the unrivaled and most trusted electronics trading company that offers unique value,” while contributing to the development of society.
Value cycle
The Marubun Group creates original value by demonstrating strengths in each of following value cycle functions, putting into practice our Purpose of “Contribute to a brighter future through technologies.”
- Discovery and development
With discernment grounded in the spirit of looking forward and staying ahead that has been passed down in our DNA since the founding of the Company, we discover products, technologies, and services on the cutting edge and quickly make them available to customers. We also engage in business acquisitions, venture investments, and other business investments that connect to the further advance of our business.
- Procurement
Handling products and services from over 800 suppliers and working under strategic partnerships, we perform timely procurement of the products that our customers seek from around the world. We are working to expand and enhance our sources of procurement to meet ever-changing diverse needs.
- Sales
We sell high-value-added products and services, always staying close to our customers in the spirit of “Customers First.” We provide on-site support for component procurement and production migration through a global sales network with our partner in the U.S.
- Logistics
Through an advanced logistics management system, we have established an efficient, accurate delivery structure. We ensure product safety through proper management of contained chemical substances, and achieve rapid import/export operations and just-in-time delivery as a certified “specified exporter.”
- Trading company financing
Through the trust and the fundraising capabilities we have built up, we engage in transactions based on inter-company credit, acting at the intersection of suppliers and customers. We reduce financial risks through meticulous management of funding and credit, and ensure business continuity by maintaining an appropriate level of equity capital.
- Technical support
With a specialized technical service department and engineering service company, we offer one-stop services that cover introduction, installation, and maintenance of equipment. We propose equipment, parts, and software combined in optimal systems that meet customers’ needs.
- Information production
While providing customers with up-to-date technical information, we draw on information obtained through our sales activities and engineering services to analyze and assess the challenges and the foreseeable needs of society and customers, and connect this to the creation of new solutions and business models.
The Marubun Group’s strengths and initiatives in the value cycle
The following diagram shows the strengths of the Marubun Group and our related initiatives within the value cycle.
