MISUMI Group Inc. Headquarters (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Shin Shimizu; hereinafter "MISUMI") announced on June 30, 2026, a business alliance with DAIKO XTECH Inc. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Koichiro Matsuyama; hereinafter "DXT") and TECHNOA Inc. (Headquarters: Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture; President: Koji Yamazaki; hereinafter "TECHNOA"). MISUMI's product database of over 30 million items will be integrated via API with DXT and TECHNOA's production management systems. Through purchasing DX that supports the core business of production material management, a productivity improvement of up to twice the conventional level is expected. This service has been realized as a three-company alliance by a consortium that has joined forces for the first time to innovate traditional procurement and purchasing operations and establish a new industry standard for EC operators handling production materials and production management system providers. ■ Background of the Consortium - Tightening of Purchasing Operations and the Limits of "Individual Company DX" Purchasing operations for production materials are an essential process in manufacturing. However, due to the wide variety of suppliers and items, the technical difficulty of master data maintenance, operational design, and external data integration has been high, hindering DX promotion by individual small and medium-sized enterprises, which are particularly suffering from labor and time shortages. This is due to the actual usage of production management systems. Production management systems are core systems that manage not only production planning, inventory, and cost control, but also the purchasing of production materials such as machine parts and consumables. However, they have traditionally been used primarily for internal operations. As a result, external orders have often still involved manual work such as email and fax. This has resulted in a vast amount of work, incl