Toyota

Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A., Inc. (TMHU), has been named as one of 75 Green Supply Chain Partners in Inbound Logistics Magazines annual listing for the third consecutive year, since the awards inception. Chosen for this title because of their environmentally friendly solutions and manufacturing process, the ranking demonstrates Toyotas dedication to supply chain sustainability. The companies selected are featured in the June issue. Inbound Logistics June feature profiles 75 companies in several categories of logistics service providers from 3PLs, truckers, ports to lift truck manufacturers which its editors determine are truly walking the walk and committed to supply chain sustainability. The companies selected, including Toyota, have a long-standing history of supporting their customers drive to environmental initiatives and an internal commitment to be as lean and green as possible,explained Felecia Stratton, editor,Inbound Logistics.

Inbound Logistics:

Here goods are received from a company's suppliers. They are stored until they are needed on the production/assembly line. Goods are moved around the organization. Toyota motors purchase their raw material from all around the world. In order to maximize their availability of raw material Toyota motors maintain good relationship with their suppliers. Toyota use JIT (Just In Time) approach for handling of raw material.

Outbound Logistics:

The goods are now finished, and they need to be sent along the supply chain to wholesalers, retailers or the final consumer. Toyota motors manage their own Show rooms in different countries. Toyota motors make their product easily assessable.

Transportation
Toyota Industries Group companies are carrying out automotive part transportation, general trucking services throughout Japan, regular truck based shipping, storage, and representative delivery operations. n addition to cargo transport and warehousing operations, Toyota Industries carries out the Logistics Solutions Business to help companies reduce their logistics costs. We handle all aspects of customers' logistics by combining

our extensive business experience in lift trucks, automated storage and retrieval systems, and other materials handling equipment with our production and logistics know-how that has been cultivated from monozukuri (creating things). We are building original business models that strive to optimize the overall flow of goods, money, and information from the manufacturer to the customer, and thereby contribute to the optimization of the customer's overall logistics.

Logistics Solutions (3PL)

Toyota Industries aims to help its customers reduce their total logistics costs and address their needs for logistics improvements by tapping into its wealth of accumulated experience gained from the production and sales of lift trucks, automated storage and retrieval systems, and other materials handling equipment, as well as our production know-how, which is best represented by the Toyota Production System. Toyota industries considers logistics to be an ongoing process that continues until a product passes the checkout counter at a retail store. From the perspective of optimizing the overall flow of goods, we aim to build original business models that enable extensive improvements which include logistics reforms within retail outlets. In addition to the flow of goods we have added operations to control the flow of money and the flow of information in order to provide overall optimized logistics solutions that have never existed before.

Ware housing
Toyota Industries carries out development, manufacturing, and sales of logistics equipment and systems that include not only industrial vehicles, such as lift trucks, but also transportation, storage, and sorting. In order to help our customers overcome their logistics challenges, we offer optimized materials handling solutions based on our technological capabilities and materials handling know-how. We provide products to our customers around the world using the Toyota, BT, and Raymond brand names. Under the Aichi brand, aerial work platforms are sold throughout the world.

Packaging
Toyota transports vehicle parts and completed vehicles throughout Japan and overseas. For FY2000, Toyotas transport volume in Japan was 3.1 billion ton-kilometers (tons times kilometers). In FY2000, Toyota was active in reducing the impact on the environment reducing usage of packaging and wrapping materials by simplifying specifications for packaging and wrapping materials and by promoting the use of returnable containers

JIT
Toyota Motor Corporation's vehicle production system is a way of "making things" that is sometimes referred to as a "lean manufacturing system" or a "Just-in-Time (JIT) system," and has come to be well known and studied worldwide. This production control system has been established based on many years of continuous

improvements, with the objective of "making the vehicles ordered by customers in the quickest and most efficient way, in order to deliver the vehicles as quickly as possible." The Toyota Production System (TPS) was established based on two concepts: The first is called "jidoka" (which can be loosely translated as "automation with a human touch") which means that when a problem occurs, the equipment stops immediately, preventing defective products from being produced; The second is the concept of "Just-in-Time," in which each process produces only what is needed by the next process in a continuous flow. Based on the basic philosophies of jidoka and Just-in-Time, the TPS can efficiently and quickly produce vehicles of sound quality, one at a time, that fully satisfy customer requirements.

Inventory:
Any logistics activity that results in more inventory being positioned than needed or in a location other than where needed. Examples include early deliveries, receipt of order for a quantity greater than needed, and inventory in the wrong DC Toyota Production System as this method of managing inventory logistics was pioneered by Toyota Motor Corporation. The objective of just in time inventory is to keep no inventory - zero storage, precisely. The philosophy behind JIT is a contradiction of traditional stock accounting and process costing methods that assume inventory as a store of value. Rather, just in time inventory philosophy regards inventory as a unit of cost and a vehicle of waste of capital. So, what is just in time inventory all about? Just in time inventory seeks to do away with the excess inventory which does not have any use, at a given point of time during the manufacturing process.