Introduction of the company Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota‚ Aichi‚ Japan. In 2012‚ it was the largest automobile manufacturer. It is the world’s first automobile manufacturer to produce more than 10 million vehicles per year. It was the largest listed company in Japan by market capitalization up to July 2014. In 1937‚ Toyota Motor Corporation was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda‚ as a spinoff from his father’s company‚ Toyota Industries to create automobiles
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Company Case: Prius: Leading a Wave of Hybrids 1. What micro-environmental factors affected both the first generation and second generation models of Toyota Prius? How well has to Toyota dealt with these factors? In order for the reader to have an understanding of this question is important to begin by defining Micro-environment. This term is a factor of the Marketing Environment and it consists of the issues that‚ in one way or another‚ affect the company’s ability to serve its clientele in
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Executive Summary Toyota Motor Manufacturing (TMM) confronted with several critical issues. (See Appendix 1) These issues caused the insufficient Just-in-Time (JIT) system. The first two critical issues are too much dependence on sole supplier and insufficient information management. Since TMM failed to communicate with sole supplier KFS‚ they projected the production unrealistically. Also‚ because of incapability of KFS to supply the car seat demand‚ a growing number of cars sit off the line with
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After gone through the case of “designing a hybrid global sourcing strategy” I felt that the hybrid organization and hybrid sourcing is doable and it should look like what I write at the following contents. Since the task force decided to help Triton transforms into a hybrid organization as well as its purchasing system‚ they must define what hybrid organization is and what hybrid structure specialize in; advantages of using hybrid structure; how does hybrid organization operates in sourcing efficiency
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Electrical Machines and Drives for Electric‚ Hybrid‚ and Fuel Cell Vehicles Induction and switched-reluctance machines can provide the needed characteristics‚ but permanent magnet brushless machines offer a higher efficiency and torque density. By Z. Q. Zhu‚ Senior Member IEEE‚ and David Howe ABSTRACT | This paper reviews the relative merits of induction‚ switched reluctance‚ and permanent-magnet (PM) brushless machines and drives for application in electric‚ hybrid‚ and fuel cell vehicles‚ with particular
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Honda Motor Company‚ Ltd. and Toyota Motor Corporation An Engineering 111 Case Study By James Barbour‚ Daniel Hui‚ Chaereena Sarabian‚ Melissa Shafer‚ Christopher Woo Introduction The automotive industry in the past couple of years has seen its fair share of problems. Following the recession of the economy and the bailout of the American car companies the future of the automotive industry looked pretty bleak. However throughout all the
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how the macro environment impacts upon industries 1. Introduction To answer this question‚ I will use Toyota as an example of an automotible industry within South Africa. An industry can be defined as a group of companies that satisfies a specific customer need. 2. Economic forces Since economic forces can change the health of the economy‚ they also have a direct impact on the broader industrial competitive environment. The four most important of these forces are: • the growth rate
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and Toyota Motor 1 Comparison and Contrast of General Motors and Toyota Motor Thomas Hong‚ Ph.D. The Impact of Technology on Organization University of Phoenix November 12‚ 2007 General Motor and Toyota Motor Introduction 2 This paper seeks to compare core and enabling technologies of two organizations in the automobile industry. General Motors Corporation experienced a crisis that recorded another operating loss of $7‚668 million during the fiscal year of 2006‚ while Toyota Motor
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Competitive Strategy Asia-Pacific Marketing Federation Certified Professional Marketer Copyright Marketing Institute of Singapore Outline * Introduction * Sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) * Sources of SCA * Strategies for * Market Leaders * Challengers * Followers‚ and * Nichers Introduction * Having a competitive advantage is necessary for a firm to compete in the market * But what is more important is whether
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hbrreprints.org Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System by Steven Spear and H. Kent Bowen Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 1 Article Summary 2 Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System A list of related materials‚ with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications 12 Further Reading The Toyota story has been intensively researched
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