Seen that? - Toyota selects W. P. Carey School of Business for SCM course

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Toyota selects W. P. Carey School of Business for SCM course Supplychainer

Executive Education Programs at the W. P. Carey School of Business has been selected by Toyota Manufacturing North America to design a program introducing senior purchasing managers at Toyota to cutting edge thinking and practices in supply chain management. According to a statement Thursday from Arizona State University, the selection came following a year-long process in which the W.P. Carey Executive Education Programs competed with schools such as the Massachussetts Institute [...] Read More


Is Toyota the author of his misfortunes? (Part 1) Supplychainer

California's Chronicle Herald did recently covered misfortunes of Toyota from supply chain perspective and highlighted an interesting point: The other big automakers might be the next... Although it is Toyota that is currently in the dock after a crushing series of safety-related recalls across the world, competitors are only too aware that it could be their turn next. After all, there is not a single big carmaker that has [...] Read More


Managing crisis, the Toyota Way! Supplychainer

I read an article about a week ago in Wall Street Journal (You can its full version here) about the crisis in the U.S. and the reaction of the auto makers. The automotive industry has been with a lot of challenges in the recent years, especially with over-capacity of its personnel in the downturn; now and with shadow of financial crisis affecting many industry industries, I can imagine that this [...] Read More


In Moscow it's a Steal carzz.org

We like to spend each Friday reviewing "What the World Drives." Now it looks like we might start a new series of posts - "What the World Steals." From the land of Borscht and vodka comes the latest stolen car statistics out of Moscow. [...] Read More


@ Detroit > Toyota Subtly Puts Down DCX carzz.org

According to MotorAuthority, a Toyota spokesman was quoted as suggesting that in order to make a diesel vehicle cost effective, the company would have to spend much too much money in designing sophisticated filters to allow an oil burning model to pass stringent emissions (i.e. California) thereby driving up the vehicle's MSRP. This seems like code for the following: 1) We're king of the hybrids, layman of the diesels - we're [...] Read More