Contemporary Issues in Logistics & Supply Chain Management

Running head: Logistics & Supply Chain Management 1
Contemporary Issues in Logistics & Supply Chain Management
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Table of Contents
Research Question.........................................................................................................................2
Executive Summary.......................................................................................................................3
Introduction....................................................................................................................................4
Industry background.................................................................................................................4
Organization background.........................................................................................................4
Operations and Performance........................................................................................................5
Supply Chain Phases..................................................................................................................5
Performance Analysis....................................................................................................................7
Integration Consideration.............................................................................................................9
Internal Integration...................................................................................................................9
External integration.................................................................................................................10
Value Generation.........................................................................................................................12
Conclusion....................................................................................................................................14
References.....................................................................................................................................14

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Research Question
Toyota Manufacturing Company is one of the largest and successful manufacturing business in
the world. The Company has dominated a large market in the world of vehicle manufacturing
sector. Toyota Company builds trucks and cars in more than 28 countries and makes sales in
more than 170 market outlets round the global. During the year 2017, the Company managed to
have a global assembly of 10.57 million vehicles. In average, one car was manufactured entirely
and released from the production unit in "every three seconds, every minute, every hour and
every day throughout the year." The sales income of the company increases with time goes and
also as per the vehicle brand in the market. For example, in the year 2018, the Company made
10.567 million global productions with 8.89 million sales from Lexus and Toyota brand vehicle
only (Monden, 2019).
The Company was first established in Europe, Japan then spread to the next of the world
countries, including the significant manufacturing in the United Kingdom. The challenge in the
market-facing Toyota manufacture is on how to maintain and increase its image strength in the
market for future sales.
How can Toyota Manufacture Limited Company increase its competitive edges in the
marketplace using supply chain performance drivers?

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Executive Summary
In summary, this report has discussed the supply chain concept, which promotes Toyota
Company objectives to have an effective and strong competitive advantage in the market. The
following are the areas which have been discussed in this report: performance operation in
supply chain, internal and external integration, and value chain generation together with the
stream value map. All these concepts increases essential tactics in the field of pricing,
transportation, warehousing, and production as all adds up developing a viable supply chain
process in the Company. All this knowledge aims to increase the competitive advantage of the
Toyota Company through supply chain concept.