Hitachi Transport System, Ltd.(HTS) pleased to inform that we were the first Japanese company to win the third place in the Global Professional Challenge 2022, a supply chain management training competition event held annually by Inchainge in the Netherlands.

Our participants won Japanese preliminary round and final round, and then participated in a global competition in which 47 companies that passed the qualifying rounds from all over the world. The competitions held over four days and the players are required to make flexible decisions in a short time, such as reworking previous strategy according to daily results and responding to sudden events that occur during the competition. Each of the participating members utilized the experience they had cultivated in a real business setting, and as a result of overcoming such a situation, we won the 3rd place, surpassing our record (5th place in 2020).

By implementing the supply chain management and management skills acquired through this competition in our business, we will strive to further expand our services in the SCM area.

The Fresh Connection(TFC): A business simulation education program competition developed by Inchainge.
It complies with the accreditation standards of APICS, the world's largest body specializing in SCM education and certification, and has been adopted by over 700 companies and universities since 2008.Every year, more than 300 corporate teams from all over the world participate in the SCM competition using SCM.

The content of the program is to experience and learn the practices of corporate management and supply chain management through the management of a virtual company. In the competition, players form a management team consisting of sales, procurement, operations (manufacturing, warehouse), and supply chain, and compete with other management team players while aiming to maximize ROI of the virtual company.

Under the business concept “LOGISTEED,” we aim to become the most preferred global supply chain solutions provider, and we strive to achieve new innovations by enhancing the core domain and expanding collaborative area across businesses and industries.