Supply Chain Analysis of Toyota Company 2022

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Supply Chain Analysis of Toyota Company
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SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYSIS OF TOYOTA COMPANY1
Executive Summary
The report is an analysis on the supply chain management at Toyota. This report includes
the strategies applied by Toyota to supply chain management to lead in the industry.
Furthermore, to this report the key strategies are listed out. The layout of the supply chain at
Toyota is illustrated in this report, the report identifies the suppliers and the risk involved in
supply chain management of Toyota.
Table of Content

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Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................3
Overview......................................................................................................................................3
Competitive Strategies of Toyota................................................................................................3
Priority Competitive Strategies....................................................................................................5
Order winner and order qualifier.................................................................................................5
Supply Chain of Toyota...............................................................................................................6
Strategy aligned layout............................................................................................................6
Suppliers of Toyota..................................................................................................................7
Logistics and transport.............................................................................................................8
Manufacturing..........................................................................................................................8
Risks in Supply Chain Management at Toyota...........................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Supply Chain Management is implemented in an organization to streamline the supply
chain operations such as material procurement, inventory management, production, logistics and
distribution (Brandenburg et al., 2014). The scope of supply chain is immense as if a large no of
variable modulators can affect the results. This is a supply chain management analysis of Toyota.
This report details the strategy of the company for supply chain management and layout the
process in detail. Furthermore, in this report the supply chain at Toyota is illustrated in detail
identifying the suppliers and the logistics to the company.
Discussion
Overview
Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer.
The headquarters of the company is situated in Aichi, Japan. In 2018, Toyota was positioned at
sixth position on the list of largest companies in the world in terms of revenue (Toyota Motor,
2019). Toyota is the leader for manufacturing hybrid electric vehicles in the world. Toyota’s
supply chain management is a component of the strategy operation of the company, which is
aligned to the Toyota Production System. Toyota identifies that supply chain management at any
organization is a potential domain to be analyzed with the scope of optimizing it. Toyota is one
of the companies setting model for successful business practices including the supply chain
management.
Competitive Strategies of Toyota
The supply chain management at Toyota is one of the parameters of the operation
strategies of the company to have a competitive edge. The metric is thoroughly aligned to