○○製品製造卸として限りなく川上思考
English translation: as a wholesale ○○ manufacturer, strive to develop and maintain internal (or in-house) supply chain
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peer agreement (net): +1as a wholesale ○○ manufacturer, strive to develop and maintain internal (or in-house) supply chain Explanation: A manufacturer of products that also manufactures raw material or parts of the goods is said to have internal (or in-house) supply chain, as opposed to the manufacturer that purchases raw material or parts from other companies. Therefore, I think "strive to develop and maintain internal (in-house) supply chain" is appropriate to express 限りなく川上思考. I think xx製品製造卸 is "wholesale xx manufacturer." |
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implement upstream concepts as a wholesale manufacturer of ○○ products Explanation: "○○製品製造卸" refers to; a company that manufacture （製造） and distribute/wholesale （卸） ○○ products. I think "川上思考" is "upstream concepts" in English. 'upstream' in regards to manufacturing business refers to inventing and designing of products, oppose to 'downstream', which is basically producing whatever had already been designed by and subcontracted from an upstream company. I hope it helps... Example sentence(s):
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peer agreement (net): -1as a wholesale manufacturer, we're "thinking upstream" with no limits Explanation: "upstream thinking / thinking upstream" and I think the word "sustainable" works better than "independent" for the word: 独立. - Another possibility: As a business, we're endeavoring (or "making every effort") to be a sustainable company, and as a wholesale manufacturer we're thinking unlimitedly upstream. - There are several meanings for “upstream” (川上) with one being “of or relating to earnings or operations at a firm that are near or at the initial stages of producing a good or service. For example, exploration and production are upstream operations for a large integrated oil company.” (See website reference 1) - However, I believe that the following sentence, which I extracted from the below website, may represent the “upstream” that is in your question sentence...It's about the need for strategic direction for a company's sustainability...A company has to change.": - “Represents upstream thinking as a process of continual change which organizations must embrace, otherwise organizational performance will remain limited.” - - And here's a website that uses the "salmon analogy": http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do;jse... Upstream Thinking in Management Draws attention to the need for managers to re-examine the dominant world view paradigm within which managing currently takes place. Uses the analogy of a salmon struggling up river to show management today as an uncertain journey from the narrow convergence of the paradigm downstream to the open divergence which is upstream, culminating in the birth of new perspectives and fresh ideas. Represents upstream thinking as a process of continual change which organizations must embrace, otherwise organizational performance will remain limited - Here is another very good website in the subject of “thinking upstream" with what I think are pivotal words: "creating a vision of how the company will fulfill its customers' needs in the future while complying with the system conditions, and specifying a program of actions that will take the company from today's situation to the future vision."... http://www.jstor.org/pss/25062594 Simplicity without Reduction: Thinking Upstream Towards the Sustainable Society, by Göran Broman, John Holmberg and Karl-Henrik Robèrt © 2000 INFORMS. The natural-step framework is used by over 100 organizations, including many global corporations in Europe and the United States, to provide strategic direction for their sustainability initiatives. The framework is built on the concept of simplicity without reduction. Out of respect for complexity, we designed it to provide a compass, a guide for strategic direction. The framework consists of a backcasting planning process for sustainable development based on four principles (system conditions) for sustainability. The framework does not prescribe detailed actions. Once an organization understands the framework, it identifies and specifies the detailed means by which to achieve the strategy, because it knows its business best. The steps in the planning process are understanding and discussing the system conditions for sustainability, describing and discussing how the company relates to the system conditions in today's situation, creating a vision of how the company will fulfill its customers' needs in the future while complying with the system conditions, and specifying a program of actions that will take the company from today's situation to the future vision. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2010-05-21 04:34:55 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Or, "....we're continuously thinking upstream...." / "endlessly thinking downstream...." -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2010-05-21 04:35:18 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Oops....I meant "upstream." :-) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2010-05-21 05:00:12 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- PS. The "yourdictionary.com" meaning above is the "upstream" definition that I disagree with. It was for a comparative reference only. Reference: http://www.yourdictionary.com/business/upstream |
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| Reference: FYI Reference information: 1.川上思考（デザイン企画を取り込む） 従来の製版方式「印刷会社の下請けや部品加工」とういう考えから脱し，DTP化の利点を生かし，デザイン企画へ進出し，企画段階から手をつけて，入口（入力）から出口（出力）までの生産工程を確保する作戦。 http://www.jagat.or.jp/pc/story_memo_view_pc.asp?StoryID=581... http://lib.toyokeizai.net/business/interview/detail/AC/35730... http://www.mitsubishicorp.com/jp/en/ir/library/ar/pdf/arepor... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2010-05-21 05:41:50 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- 何を製造しているかにもよるかもしれませんね。 http://blog.goo.ne.jp/impannatore/e/2b81a280734d7b5252f0cb3b... http://www.itochu.co.jp/ja/csr/report/2007/pdf/07j05-06.pdf |
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