Tomino Takahiro    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Commerce    Position   Professor
研究期間	2015/04～2019/03
研究課題	The role of the timing controller in the supply chain
実施形態	科学研究費補助金
研究委託元等の名称	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
研究種目名	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
科研費研究課題番号	15H03382
代表分担区分	研究分担者
代表者	OKAMOTO Hirokimi
概要	We come to the following conclusions: (1) there are companies that can be called timing controllers in supply chains, ranging from raw materials to finished products; (2) timing controllers vary by supply chain, and include diverse industries, from commercial businesses to specialty firms; (3) overall costs are reduced because of their existence; and (4) timing controllers are intermediaries that separate, particularly temporally, production and consumption, and provide a fine tuning system that goes far beyond that imagined in prior studies.