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Operations at Toyota
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The operations management system at Toyota is quite different from the other companies.
The company that I have chosen is Toyota motors.
Origins of operations management in Toyota:
The success of Toyota motors is mainly due to maintain a different operations department as compared to other companies. The system uses various aspects like ongoing improvements in the operations. The structure of the company is such that all the employees are provided a good chance to take part in the work. The history of the company can be found around 1933. The system implementing the just in time credentials for the inventory and operations in the year 1938. The company began to let the employees participate in the operations first time in 1951. The success of the company lies in the fact that the operations of the company and the overall thoughts of the management are very well aligned. The company uses a lean technique for making the products. This technique was a result of the financial problems that the company faced after the Second World War. The inventory started to bulge and there was not that much demand for the output produced. It also uses the just in time process to manage the supply chain. The system was so much effective that it was ready to be introduced in the Europe by the mid-1980s.In order to implement the quality control system, the company uses the 5-whys system. In this system the company puts 5 questions starting with why regarding a particular problem. The just in time system works two ways. One for the inventory of raw materials and the other for inventory of finished goods. The system ensures that the inventory of both ttypes is minimized by just responding to the available demand in time. CITATION Ter02 \l 1033 (lucey, 2002)
References
BIBLIOGRAPHY Holweg, M. (2007). The Genealogy of lean production. journal of operations management, 420-437.
lucey, T. L. (2002). Quantitative techniques. Cengage learning EMEA.
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