Komatsu Ltd. (President and CEO: Tetsuji Ohashi) (hereinafter "Komatsu") completed the construction of the new Kanto Spare Parts Distribution Center (hereinafter "Distribution Center") on the premises of the Oyama Plant, a major plant of Komatsu in Japan, and commenced operation in August this year.

Combined with the Global Operation Center, a new organization to comprehensively control the sales, production and inventory of spare parts of construction equipment, the new Distribution Center is positioned as Komatsu Group's global spare parts center. The new Distribution Center is equipped with a new global operation system exclusively designed for global standard spare parts, a warehouse management system, and leading-edge ICT equipment. It achieves impressive improvements of efficiency in the spare parts operation.
With respect to energy savings of the building, Komatsu has divided the building into the storage and operation areas in order to enhance air conditioning efficiency. Thanks to leading-edge energy-saving equipment to the operation area, Komatsu expects to reduce electric power consumption to half from the consumption volume in FY2013.

At present, Komatsu operates a total of 18 main parts distribution centers worldwide (15 overseas and 3 in Japan). Komatsu is making group-wide efforts to shorten lead-time of spare parts from plants to customers by eliminating the intermediary process for direct linkage between customers and plants, and to dynamically reduce parts inventories worldwide. In addition to these efforts, Komatsu is working to steadily introduce this new parts operation model to other parts distribution centers. Current plans call for the introduction to parts distribution centers in Australia, North America and Japan (Kansai and Hokuriku areas) by the end of FY2015.

High racking storage (Height: 9 meters)

Conveyer system for global distribution

[Outline of the New Kanto Spare Parts Distribution Center at the Oyama Plant]
(1)Address: 400 Yokokura Shinden, Oyama-shi, Tochigi, Japan (On the premise of the Oyama Plant)
(2)Total floor space: 22,202 m2 (Operation area: 10,602 m2, Storage area: 11,340 m2, Office: 260 m2)
(3)Stocked items: Spare parts of construction equipment and forklift trucks
(4)Investment: Approx. JPY3.4 billion

[Outline of the Oyama Plant]
(1)Address: 400 Yokokura Shinden, Oyama-shi, Tochigi, Japan
(2)Plant manager: Masaki Nobuhara
(3)Total area: 591,000 m2
(4)No. of employees: Approx. 3,180 (as of March 31, 2014)