Toyota Supply Chain Management: A Strategic Approach to the Principles of Toyota's Renowned System 1st Edition

fascinating and eye opening book, reveals the stories of supply chain behind a international auto company, in which a lot of business practices are also very helpful to other industries

I think this book is a must-have for anyone who is interested in SCM.Would be nice to have a copy on your book shelf.

I needed this book for class. I paid a good price. Though I had to wait 8 days for it, thus the 4 star review. However, the book itself is dribble. Pages upon pages of pompous bluster, thanking people repeatedly. The book does have insight, if you can bear to read it.

Arrived on time and was as described.

No issues

Great condition

This book has very little actual practical application in it based upon how TOYOTA truly does business and runs the TOYOTA "Supply Chain" areas. As someone who worked at TOYOTA for MANY years learning and applying TPS / TBS to distribution and supply chain throughout the company all over the world, I am amused and disgusted by this book almost equally. As most books written on TOYOTA and TPS, this one is also written by outside scholars that did not live it, learn it, plan it, create it, apply it, check it, tweak it, and go through tens of thousands of reps in order to keep working toward enacting and sustaining the core TOYOTA Guiding Principles every day. They did try to sprinkle in some "credibility" by throwing in the marketing snippet about teaming up with a TOYOTA executive on this book. The fact that the authors cannot even get TAKT time or the application concept correct, should be a red flag to anyone who knows the basics of the system fundamentals. Would a true TOYOTA person put their name on an abomination that cannot even relate TAKT time correctly to readers? This is another typical scenario where some people decided to make money by writing a book about the "TOYOTA IMPACT" in an area that TPS application has not really been widely implemented within even as of 2009 - SUPPLY CHAIN & DISTRIBUTION. If you want a good vision into TOYOTA on any level, then stick to reading the books by Dr. Jeffrey Liker - the only author that my teams ever saw in TOYOTA facilities and that worked in the operations with us. Other "TOYOTA SOMETHING" authors are just hack job carnival ride operators. If you doubt it, then ask any true TOYOTA associate...

Having purchased and read many of the TPS books in the past, i'm happy to say this one contained some useful insights i hadn't come across before. Will it allow your company to fix it's supply chain....probably not, since it lacks many non-Toyota examples and methods. But just being able to peek in how they've been able to align the plant with the customer is refreshing.

Ok

Hat mir zu einer 1,3 in meiner Hausarbeit verholfen :) Ist spannend geschrieben, und hätte es vielleicht auch gelesen, wenn ich nicht meine Hausarbeit über das Thema hätte schreiben müssen

Quality of book provided is really poor. It looks like used book with all pages are having dirt on edges. Colour of page is turned yellow which creates doubt that printing was done years ago. This book is for library , if AMAZON can chsnge it with good copy, it will be helpful.

Increíble todo lo que hace Toyota desde una planeación hasta el movimiento de piezas dentro y fuera de la empresa por parte de los proveedores. Logística increíble.

Some great Toyota concept