Common Problems in Management Information Systems - Toyota

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The Toyota Company is one of the most renowned company in the car services. It is
based at Japan and now it one of the largest vehicle manufacturing company of the world. All
though it is one of the business giants, there are certain problems that are faced by the
company as well and they are given below.
 Problems with the Online-process:
The Toyota Company is facing certain issues regarding the Corporate Customer
Information System Problem. The system produce unnecessary data which results in the data
overloading. There are multiple sources of information that is utilized by the system. The
company uses heterogeneous information system which leads to the inconsistency of the
information.1
The other problem faced by the company for the online process includes, the quality of
the information and the data challenges.2
The waste products are generated in huge lumps, which lead to the issues of the waste
management. The warehouse were developed for the management of the entire process.
One of the greatest disadvantage of the company is the deficit of the risk management.
The risk management helps in identification of the issues that may occur due to the entire
process of development. Thus the problems remained undiscovered until faced.
 Problems with the suppliers:
The process of decision making is one of the most important action in the process of
management. In case of Toyota, the entire process of decision making is controlled from the
1 Das, Srijan, Rui Dai, Michal Koperski, Luca Minciullo, Lorenzo Garattoni, Francois Bremond, and Gianpiero
Francesca. "Toyota smarthome: Real-world activities of daily living." In Proceedings of the IEEE International
Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 833-842. 2019.
2 Polancich, Shea, and Bonnie Pilon. "The Application of the Toyota Production System LEAN 5S Methodology in
the Operating Room Setting." Nursing Clinics 54, no. 1 (2019): 53-79.