Ensayo Benchmarking

FUNDAMENTOS DE LA CADENA DE SUMINISTROS

TOYOTA SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Ananth V. Iyer (Mc Graw Hill)
Alumno: Carlos David Ibarra Rubio
Profesor: Mtro. Jorge Ibarra Vázquez

28 de Noviembre de 2012

Fundamentos de la Cadena de Suministro

INTRODUCCION

Toyota’s success in the marketplace has been admired by business practitioners and executives alike. The automaker isthe envy of others within the automobile industry, but the company is also considered to be the symbol of excellence in business in general.

The power of Toyota has been attributed to its two distinct core values: the Toyota Way and the Toyota Production System (TPS). The Toyota Way has created a culture of respect for individuals, promoting innovation and fostering cooperation. TPS has beenthe engine under which lean manufacturing, kanbans, quality systems, just-in-time, and continuous improvement practices have been developed. Together, they have been the pillars for the foundation upon which Toyota has become so successful.

But the Toyota Way and TPS are just foundational pillars. There is another concrete secret to the success of Toyota: the way the company runs its supplychain. The Toyota Way and TPS of course have been part of how Toyota has developed its supply chain principles and how the company has applied such principles to work with its suppliers, dealers, and manufacturers. Based on these principles, Toyota has coordinated the plans across the supply chain and it has executed them well. Supply chain management excellence is the ultimate way in which Toyota hasbuilt its superior efficiency in operations.

DEVELOPMENT

Toyota is well known for its approach to problem solving and continuous improvement, performance at Toyota is evaluated with equal weight given to both the process used to derive performance and the results achieved.

V4L framework:
This process focus aims to generate a balance of key supply chain parameters, variety of productsoffered, velocity of product flow, variability of outcomes against forecast, and visibility of process to enable learning.

* Variety is carefully chosen to balance market demands and operational efficiency, and represent a crucial supply chain design choice that has an impact across all supply chain participants.
* Velocity a focus on maintaining a steady flow throughout the systemenables capacity planning to be synchronized across the supply chain.
* Variability of orders or deliveries across the supply chain is minimized by how the individual processes are executed.
* Visibility of all processes is ensured with use of the right metrics and the requirement that a consensus be reached before plans are changed.


The Toyota Production System (TPS) is the benchmarkused throughout the world as the best practices, to fully understand the process the next questions need to be answered:

* What is the product? A car or a truck can be described with its specifications, Make, Models, Body style, Grade, Engine, Transmission, Factory options, Accessories, External / Internal Color.
* Who are the customers? Retail consumers, Employees / Suppliers, Fleet(rental companies), Commercial fleet and Government entities.
* What are the distribution models? Defines the method used to distribute vehicles from the assembly plant to the dealers.

The supply chain has both physical components as well as operational and planning processes. The physical flow of the supply chain are produced by suppliers and transported by inbound logistics to the assemblyplant. At the assembly plant, the vehicle begins in the body shop, moves to the paint shop then to assembly, and finally to inspection.

* Suppliers provide thousands of parts and components that go into the vehicle.
* Inbound Logistics after parts are produced by the suppliers; they are shipped to the assembly plants.
* Production, vehicles are produced at the final assembly plant...