OREANDA-NEWS. Mazda Motor Corporation announced the following organizational and personnel changes, effective June 1, 2016.

1. Organizational Changes

Changes in the area of Production Control & Logistics

<Aim>

  • Reorganize and consolidate the division's operations by function in order to achieve further improvement in the quality of operations from the customer's perspective and optimize overall operations at the same time.

<Details of the organizational changes>

  • Planning of production, procurement, shipping and other areas will be consolidated to the Production Control Department.
  • Establish Production Control & Logistics Quality & Engineering Department and consolidate the division's strategy planning functions, logistics engineering functions, transaction functions and preparation for the production for new models to the new department.
  • Restructure the Parts Procurement & Logistics Department for greater efficiency.
  • Integrate the Global Supply Chain Management Department and the CS Parts Logistics Department to establish the CS Parts Operations Department.

2. Personnel Changes

General managers and above

New post Current post Name
Program Manager
Product Div.		 Dispatched to
Mazda de M?xico Vehicle Operation		 Hiroshi Ozawa
General Manager
Body Production Engineering Dept.		 Staff Manager
MDI Project Office
and Staff Manager
Production Engineering Div.		 Shinro Ainoura
Staff Manager
CS Parts Operations Dept.
and Staff Manager
Production Control & Logistics Div.		 General Manager
Global Supply Chain Management Dept.		 Yoshihisa Handa
General Manager
Production Control & Logistics Quality & Engineering Dept.		 Staff Manager
Body Production Engineering Dept.		 Michio Higaki
General Manager
Parts Procurement & Logistics Dept.*		 General Manager
Parts Procurement & Logistics Dept.		 Manabu Kihara
General Manager
CS Parts Operations Dept.		 General Manager
CS Parts Logistics Dept.		 Kensuke Hamada
General Manager
Product Marketing Dept.
and Deputy General Manager
Global Sales & Marketing Div.		 Deputy General Manager
Global Sales & Marketing Div.		 Hiroshi Kuwabara
Dispatched to
Keylex Co.		 General Manager
Body Production Engineering Dept.		 Yasuhiro Kan
Dispatched to
Mazda North American Operations		 General Manager
Product Marketing Dept.		 Tomoya Ichinose
Dispatched to
Mazda de M?xico Vehicle Operation		 Staff Manager
Purchasing Div.		 Masahiro Tone
Dispatched to
Changan Mazda Automobile, Co., Ltd.		 Staff Manager
China Business Div.		 Akira Moriwaki

* The department name is changed in Japanese only.