Zhijian, Email: zhijianc@ust.hk, Office: Rm 4079, Tel: 34692127 TA: Ms Jia Jing, imjing@ust.hk Brief Outline The course content is divided into two components. In the first part, Business Process Analysis and Improvement, we study tools and cases that allow us to analyze, improve and design internal firm activities. In the second part, Supply Chain Management, we turn our attention to entities external to the firm and examine the activities of sourcing raw materials and delivering goods to
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In order to remain competitive, many major businesses around the world have been trying to adopt lean manufacturing system as a one of the initiatives. The focus of the system is on cost reduction by eliminating non-value added activities. Lean is a mindset focusing on the value creation to the customer with the fewest resources. That is to produce products the customer need, whether it is a product or service, using only the essential resources to create value all the time efficiently. (Liker &
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by Associated Press, more than 550 recalls have been issued by the automakers for more than 52 million vehicles this year with 2 months still to go. Almost every major automaker has recalled its vehicles this year. Be it global giants like General Motors with 26 million cars, Ford with 202,000 cars or Indian auto giant Mahindra and Mahindra with around 23,000 units recalled in July, almost everyone across the globe recalled their vehicles. 2014 has beaten the previous record of 30.8 recalled vehicles
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challenge for Japanese government, businesses, and societies was the resulting ruining of several nuclear reactors in the region which supplied electricity for homes and industry. Located in the disaster expanse are a number of manufacturing facilities which are vital to the global motor vehicle supply chain. These areas took a big hit which was seemed to be preventive in resolution based off the imagery and cost factors of how the end result of the hurricane and earthquake effected those critical locations
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Introduction of the company - Ford Ford Motor Business began in 1903 by Henry Ford and it has constantly remained within family group possession ever since that period. The business created and applied assembly line manufacturing from the launch of the Model T in the year 1909, and created planes and automobiles for US Allies in The Second World War. Ford has worked globally since 1904, in the event it opened a division in Canada to acquire entry to Commonwealth marketplaces. With regard to the
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Investment Highlights GreenTech: Tesla Motors Poster Child for Green Mobility NeXt Up! www.nextupresearch.com With over 1063 Roadsters sold, Tesla, in our view, is the first to achieve commercial scale in sale of high performance electric cars. Our model assumes only sales of 4200 Model S (to be launched in 2012) cars even in 2015, which could prove conservative given Tesla‟s expectations for 20k cars a year. We note that Tesla has booked over 2200 orders for Model S. We expect the NUMMI
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Honda in Europe( INTRODUCTION The Honda Motor Company first entered the European market in the early 1960s through the sale of its motorcycles. The company’s motor vehicles were introduced into Europe at a much later date. Honda’s motor vehicle sales in Europe have been relatively poor, especially in the previous five years. Despite its huge success in the North American market, Honda is struggling to gain a significant foothold in the European market. Honda executives wonder why their
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General Motors’ Crisis Communication Plan Public Relations & Corporate Communications Company Overview General Motors (GM) is an American global car manufacturer headquartered in Detroit Michigan. Employing 202,000 people, GM produces automobiles in 31 out of the 157 countries in which it conducts business. In 2011, GM succeeded in surpassing Toyota and Volkswagen with the largest number of sales worldwide, 9.03 million vehicles1. At the heart of General Motor’s charge is customer satisfaction:
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How Toyota Ought to Organize its Decision Processes to Minimize the Risk of Major Design Flaws that Lead to Massive Recalls and Driver Deaths from the Perspective of Organization Design and Decision-Making Abstract Japanese automaker, Toyota was a quality assurance trademark trusted by consumers worldwide. Though, in recent years, the company has been inundated by numerous vehicle recalls. Toyota’s quality problems surfaced when it was forced to recall nearly 7 million vehicles in the late part
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Toyota Case Toyota Motor Corp. (TMC) Should the new Toyota president accelerate the launch scheduled for the Toyota Prius? The plan to introduce the car “at the end of 1998 with expected production of 1000 units per month…” (Reinhardt, Yao & Egawa, 2006) is an extremely aggressive and ambitious goal; but, is it in TMC’s best interest to speed up the planned launch? There is no doubt that the new president (Hiroshi Okuda) is under extreme pressure to compete in a global market, he believes
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