Global Supply Chain Management in Toyota

• Tomino Takahiro

  School of Commerce, Meiji University

• Shintaku Junjiro

  Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo

• Kobayashi Mizuki

  College of Economics, Ritsumeikan University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• トヨタのグローバル・サプライチェーン・マネジメント

Abstract

Supply chain for many products spreads across the countries and regions due to globalization of economic activities. Companies should manage the long and widespread global supply chain. They are required to integrate their production and sales activities across the world. Through the case study of global supply chain of Toyota, this paper shows how Toyota coordinates production and sales in Japan, USA, Europe and China. This paper points out that component sourcing and market characteristics are the key issues in global supply chain management of Toyota.

Journal

• Akamon Management Review

  Akamon Management Review 15 (4), 209-230, 2016

  Global Business Research Center

Keywords

• global supply chain management
• Toyota
• component sourcing
• diverse market characteristics

Details

• CRID: 1390001205758946048
• NII Article ID: 130005402182
• DOI: 10.14955/amr.150401
• ISSN: 13474448
• ISSN: 13485504
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
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• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed