— Recognized for the technical capability to analyze the characteristics of the logistics floor in detail, optimize the role of each task, and build a unique operating model through system integration —
GROUND Inc. (head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Tomo Miyata; “GROUND”), a leader in LogiTech® in Japan, announces that its joint project with Saishunkan Seiyakusho Co., Ltd., Saishunkan System Co., Ltd., BIPROGY Inc., and Taktec Co., Ltd. has won the Frontline Innovation Special Award at the FY2026 Logistics Award, hosted by the Japan Institute of Logistics Systems (JILS). The awarded case is “The Challenge of Doubling Shipping Productivity Without Adding Staff Through Real-Time Integration of Autonomous Collaborative Robots (AMR) and Digital Picking (DPS).”
In this project, working with BIPROGY Inc., which handles sales of products and solutions, we connected autonomous collaborative robots (AMR) and a digital picking system (DPS) via API at the Saishunkan Seiyakusho shipping center and built a unique “hybrid operation.” By combining this with faster work through digital guidance and the removal of the inventory check process that had previously been essential, we effectively doubled shipping capacity. For the DPS deployment, we worked closely with the manufacturer, Taktec Co., Ltd., and Saishunkan Seiyakusho Co., Ltd. and Saishunkan System Co., Ltd. gave extensive cooperation in building the system integration. In addition to supplying the AMRs, GROUND led data analysis and simulation, overall project management, and implementation.
Today, Japan's logistics industry faces worsening, interlocking structural challenges: the shift to high-mix, low-volume orders with shorter lead times as e-commerce grows, along with chronic labor shortages, an aging workforce, and increasingly complex supply chains.
To address these challenges, GROUND now provides comprehensive support for logistics DX by combining GWES, a Logistics OS that centrally handles the data collection, analysis, decisions, and instructions needed to run an entire logistics facility, with logistics system integration that brings together material handling equipment, robots, and existing systems, and logistics consulting & engineering that supports everything from logistics strategy and facility design to project management and operational adoption. Drawing on its expertise in both IT and the logistics floor, GROUND drives the optimization of entire logistics facilities, going beyond the automation of individual equipment or processes.
GROUND will continue to contribute to the sustainable transformation of Japan's logistics industry by combining its own products, its system integration capability to bring advanced technology to the floor, and its consulting capability to support clients from planning through execution and adoption.
JILS's Reasons for the Award (Translated from the Original)
Dealing with worsening labor shortages on the logistics floor and future growth in volume is a key challenge shared by many companies. This paper describes an initiative that roughly doubled shipping productivity without adding staff by linking autonomous collaborative robots (AMR) and a digital picking system (DPS) in real time. Its key feature is that, after a detailed analysis of the characteristics of the logistics floor, it optimized the roles of picking and transport and built a unique operating model through system integration. As a result, it contributes not only to higher productivity but also to maintaining quality and reducing dependence on individual workers, while securing the scalability to respond flexibly to future volume growth. Achieving a major productivity gain without relying on additional staff offers an effective solution to challenges faced by many logistics floors. As a practical model of logistics DX with excellent reproducibility, it was highly rated for its effectiveness against on-site challenges and the scale of its transformative impact.
Comment from Tomo Miyata, CEO, GROUND Inc.
We are deeply honored to receive this award. We see logistics DX not as simply installing equipment or reducing labor, but as building systems that support both business growth and the people who work there. Working backward from Saishunkan Seiyakusho's management goals and the characteristics of its floor, this project redesigned the roles of people and technology, effectively raising shipping capacity without adding staff and creating an environment where workers can focus on higher-value tasks. This result came about only because Saishunkan Seiyakusho, Saishunkan System, BIPROGY, Taktec, and GROUND brought their knowledge together across the boundary between user and vendor. I sincerely thank everyone who took on this challenge with us. GROUND will continue to integrate data, technology, and on-site knowledge to support our customers' logistics transformation consistently, from concept through implementation and operation.
About the Logistics Award
The Logistics Award recognizes companies, institutions, and organizations judged to have achieved outstanding results in advancing logistics. The Japan Institute of Logistics Systems (JILS) holds it every year, and this year marks its 43rd edition.
JILS announcement: https://www1.logistics.or.jp/news/news-13694/
About Saishunkan Seiyakusho Co., Ltd.
Founded in Kumamoto in 1932, Saishunkan Seiyakusho is a “Kampo pharmaceutical company” that manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals, quasi-drugs, and cosmetics based on Kampo principles, including Tsusanto and Domohorn Wrinkle. Its manufacturing is defined by using a pharmaceutical company's technology to draw out the full potential of raw materials chosen from the idea that “people are also part of nature,” and by putting the resilient vitality of the natural world to work for people. Under its corporate philosophy, “A tomorrow connected with nature and with people,” which aims for “a cycle of nature, people, and society,” it pursues its philosophy from many angles, including sustainability activities as a way of “giving back” for the blessings it receives from nature, and recovery support after the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake for Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture, where its head office stands, through its own hometown tax donation (furusato nozei) site. Toward its 100th anniversary in 2032, it announced the “Positive Age Company Declaration,” which carries its will to “create days that make people look forward to tomorrow.” It is pursuing a medium- to long-term business plan to keep offering highly distinctive “Kampo-inspired solutions” to “customers, employees and their families, partners, local communities, and the planet.” (https://www.saishunkan.co.jp/)
About GROUND Inc.
Under its corporate vision, “We drive the future of logistics,” GROUND is a LogiTech company that develops and provides logistics solutions using advanced technologies such as AI and robotics.
To advance the optimization and DX of logistics operations, GROUND offers GWES, its in-house integrated management and optimization system for logistics facilities, along with Digital Integration, Consulting & Engineering, and robotics, and contributes to higher productivity on the logistics floor. Its solutions are being adopted at the logistics facilities of major logistics providers and manufacturers, helping to address labor shortages, reduce workloads, and improve operational efficiency.
| Company Name | GROUND Inc. |
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| Business | Providing logistics solutions that use technology |
| Founded | April 2015 |
| Address | Bizflex Kanda 10F, 1-3-33 Kanda-Sudacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0041, Japan |
| Representative | Tomo Miyata, CEO |
| Capital | 100 million yen (as of the end of June 2024) |
| URL | https://www.groundinc.co.jp |
Profile of Tomo Miyata, CEO, GROUND Inc.
| Education | Graduated from the Department of Law, Faculty of Law, Sophia University |
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