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 of Technology and Ohio State University.

Andy Atzert, Director of Executive Education at the W. P. Carey School of Business, said, "In addition to our expertise, collaboration and creativity are areas in which we excel and that is why we will be able to meet the demands of their [Toyota] proposal."

The program will consist of 10 one-day courses and will be taught in Erlanger, Ky. to Toyota's senior procurement staff. In the initial phase, Toyota has asked that Executive Education design the first three courses as a prototype.

To design this program, faculty will be drawn from the W. P. Carey School of Business Department of Supply Chain Management, as well as the departments of Marketing and Management and Finance.