Toyota Motorcycle (Case Study Sample)

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QUESTION 1
Toyota Motors Corporation is a key manufacturer of automobiles in Japan and has expanded its sales worldwide. The main problem with Toyota motors is the global production and its supply chain management. It has come up with a strategy of opening manufacturing factories in every market it has served before ( Sabio, 2013).
Its plants produce enough vehicles which sufficiently supplys the demand of global markets as well as the demand of the local market. Each market should be allocated to the plant during the planning stage. This allocation is adjusted when there is need and reviewed once or twice in a year. Toyota Motors has been using a lean supply chain to produce just what, how much, when and where it is needed. In addition, the management of Toyota has initiated the Toyota Production system aimed at improving quality and production to ensure vehicles ordered by clients are made quickly and efficiently, in order to supply vehicles in time (Sabio, 2013).Therefore, Toyota Motors should design their parts plants and be flexible to supply to all markets when the demand in the local markets is low.
Just like in 1973; oil crisis, whenever there is economy problems or inflation and deflation, Toyota plants can redesign their global operations to own a section of the market by promoting low cost operations. This strategy maintains its competitive position in the automobile industry as shown below in the following figure (Prenav, 2010);
The system used by Toyota in its operation is termed as TPS (Toyota Production System) as shown in the diagram below (Sabio, 2013);
Highest QualityShortest TimeLowest Cost
JIDOKAstop production by man or machineCulture of continuous workJust in TimePull SystemContinuous FlowTake Time
Standard Work Value Chain
Question 2
Toyota Motors Corporation has 45 part plants globally which is able to meet the high demand of customers which increases yearly. Already, these plants are flexible in the manufacture of various models of parts. The biggest part plant is situated in Canada producing up to 18000 cars per month. The other plants manufacture cars at an average of 10000 cars per month (Sabio 2013).
1 The kind of flexibilities to be built into the supply chain management are;
* The regional optimization into the supply chain mana...