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Toyota has developed long-term, collaborative partnerships with suppliers over decades through its supplier relationship management (SRM) approach. SRM at Toyota is defined by methodologies and tools to work collaboratively with strategic and non-strategic suppliers. While key performance indicators and reviews are used with strategic suppliers, other suppliers receive softer, exclusive tools. Recent economic issues have lowered Toyota's volumes and revenues, but managing supplier relationships remains a high priority. Suppliers provide technical ideas to Toyota engineers, and Toyota adopts innovative solutions via cost-reduction initiatives, balancing innovation with quality standards. Toyota typically shares savings with suppliers on a 50/50 basis to reward innovation and maintain supplier motivation long-term. Key to Toyota's success

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TOYOTA CRM Without Answers

Toyota has developed long-term, collaborative partnerships with suppliers over decades through its supplier relationship management (SRM) approach. SRM at Toyota is defined by methodologies and tools to work collaboratively with strategic and non-strategic suppliers. While key performance indicators and reviews are used with strategic suppliers, other suppliers receive softer, exclusive tools. Recent economic issues have lowered Toyota's volumes and revenues, but managing supplier relationships remains a high priority. Suppliers provide technical ideas to Toyota engineers, and Toyota adopts innovative solutions via cost-reduction initiatives, balancing innovation with quality standards. Toyota typically shares savings with suppliers on a 50/50 basis to reward innovation and maintain supplier motivation long-term. Key to Toyota's success

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TOYOTA CASE STUDY – CUSTOMER AND

SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP
Few companies have as solid a reputation for supplier
relationship management as Toyota does. The world’s biggest
auto maker has developed long term, collaborative and close
partnerships with its key suppliers over a period of several
decades.
 
In practice, At Toyota the concept of supplier relationship
management (SRM )is defined by the methodology and set of
tools that they develop a collaborative way of working with our
vital strategic suppliers or none vital supplier , they consider
nearly all their suppliers as strategic. Some of them, we apply to
them hard tools – KPIs and while others are soft and more
exclusive tools, such as regular executive top-to-top reviews.

At the moment, we have lower volumes for cars in production and


a lower level of turnover to offer to our key suppliers. However,
managing the relationship with them is a constant and is aimed at
maximizing value for both parties over several years. So, from an
attitude and willingness point of view, SRM remains high in our list
of priorities, in order to prepare future activities and future
projects.

Suppliers typically organize the technical ideas in R&D Process


according capabilities of Toyota engineers, to highlight innovative
ideas with a more immediate application, as well as giving us a
flavour of their research on a longer-term perspective. Toyota also
adopt alternative and innovative solutions from suppliers via
different cost-reduction initiatives and through value
engineering/value analysis tasks. However, it remains a
permanent challenge to get this done. Indeed, Toyota is always
careful in keeping the right balance between innovation and the
preservation of our Toyota standards, which are the foundation of
the quality and the durability of Toyota-branded cars.

Toyota generally shares savings with both suppliers, typically on a


50:50 basis . They reward suppliers for innovative solutions, as
well as to reward Toyota. If a supplier does not find it attractive to
work with Toyota, we believe their motivation in the long run will
reduce. they want to be seen as firm and challenging, but fair,
hence our view on sharing benefits.
 
Toyota its key success because they believe that doing business,
using a long-term, non-opportunistic philosophy, is an activity that
takes place between human beings at the end of the day. Top-to-
top regular, transparent connections are key. Even bad news or
difficult decisions can be accepted most of the time, if enough
time is taken to explain honestly the background and impacts.
What must be avoided is the feeling that one partner is trying to
maximiser the benefit of the relationship to the detriment of the
others. Such an opportunistic approach would break the mutual
trust for an indefinite time. In the same way that we see some of
our partners as strategic, we want to be seen as a strategic
customer. And to reach this we must be perceived as loyal and
reliable.
Plz answer the following Questions
1-How do you define SRM at Toyota? And how do SRM specific
activities with strategic suppliers differ from the way Toyata
manage supplier relations in general?

2-What impact, if any, has the economic downturn and Toyota’s


recent quality issues had on your SRM activities?

3-Innovation is a key driver of SRM at Toyota. How do Toyota


manage the process of capturing, assessing and either
progressing or rejecting supplier ideas and proposals?
4- What are the Key elements to partnership relationships of
Toyota?

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