The globalization has caused the change of the world economic recession continues. Which makes many enterprises need to have the awareness and try to adjust to create products to meet the needs of customers with different and diversity.
Creating competitive advantage predominate the competitors is what every enterprise to focus on the creation and production strategy, distribution strategy and marketing strategies. In order to comply with the period increase and meet the demand to the needs to achieve customer satisfaction.
So creating an advantage in production capability with lower cost than competitors and added value from the difference of products over the competitors, Include the management of the relationship between suppliers and customers for the delivery of goods and valuable service with low cost less any the activities of the process of logistics and supply chain management is something that many organizations need to build alliances from competitors to make the process of cargo is systematically and is the most productive.
Toyota Motor Company with a variety of products and markets around the world and have alliance both in America, Europe and Asia, each have different characteristics, which have different characteristics of supply chain management In addition, the difference between the car of Toyota, Lexus and Scion, also to supply chain process different. This process focuses on creating a balance of the main parameters of the supply chain be composed of
- Variety of products on offer was determined to create a balanced to the market demand and efficiency of the operation.
- Speed of the flow of products to focus on maintaining flows constantly throughout the system, making production planning in coordination (Synchronize) throughout the supply chain.
- Variation of results when compared with the forecasting to purchase orders or delivery throughout the supply chain is made less by how each process operation, reducing variation in that the flow of supply chain can be achieved with the inventory level is low make quality improvement process proceed with no barrier. So it causes to reduce the cost and continuous quality improvement
Toyota focused on the market in the local market, production and distribution of goods in the market in each country all over the world, by expanding the market to other countries, include finding the resources on the basis of the origin of the components and parts from various sources in many ways around the world to reduce the cost by saving production or focus on purchasing and storing large amounts of production to make the unit cost are low which system to communication and coordination are excellent to manage the logistics process more effective.