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The key strategic suppliers within Toyota’s global supply chain Ya-Ling Tsai
Department of Marketing, University of Stirling,
Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland, UK
[e-mail]
Jenkins Chen
Department of Information and Communication,Kun Shan University
No. 949 Da-Wan Road, Yung Kang, Tainan County, 71003 Taiwan [e-mail] Yao Jung Yang
Department of Information Management
Hsing-Kuo University of Management
No. 89, Yuying Street, Tainan, 709, Taiwan, [e-mail] Abstract
The expanding importance of supply chain management shows a challenge for firms to beneficially operate their supply chain partnerships. Especially, international operations must be able to resource equivalent suppliers anywhere in the world. Such thought is leading global supply chain management (GSCM) to involve thinking about the principles of the relationship between buyer and supplier.
The Toyota way is a model for making the buyer and supplier relationship efficient within GSCM. The study established by a “win-win” condition to discuss the relationship based on trust and commitment with strategic key suppliers. Dyadic firms learn new skills and rewards based on geographic and cultural borders. Toyota’s methodology of trust and commitment which was applied to gain the growth of the community and the development of the individual is expressed in many different languages.
The Toyota explores how the managerial scheme is moving towards successful GSCM. Toyota Corporation has adjusted its management to adapt all over the world. The vision of Toyota is to generate new Toyota GSCM with their way.
Keywords: Global supply chain management, Key strategic suppliers,
Toyota supply chain management

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Introduction
Enterprise globalization has dramatically transformed the way in which products are moving around the world. These develop a new framework that is to say, a global supply chain that takes advantage of differing countries
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