Teri Takai, Director of supply chain systems contemplate recommendations to senior executives. The questions asked extremely important to Ford’s future:
How should the company use:
emerging information technologies (i.e. Internet technologies)?
ideas from new high-tech industries to change the way it interacted with suppliers?
Reducing the complexity by applying standardizing criteria for part supplier network-More availability, more flexibility & faster in OTD.
Recruit, Training & Develop high skills work forces that can sense & response to rapid shift.