Tomino Takahiro    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Commerce    Position   Professor
Research Period	2015/04～2019/03
Research Topic	The role of the timing controller in the supply chain
Research Type	KAKENHI Research
Consignor	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Program Type	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
KAKENHI Grant No.	15H03382
Responsibility	Research Contributor
Representative Person	OKAMOTO Hirokimi
Details	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.