FORD MOTOR COMPANY: SUPLY CHAIN STRATEGY I. VIEWPOINT Teri Takai‚ Director of Supply Chain Systems at Ford Motor Company II. TIME CONTEXT Late 1990s III. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM How should the company use emerging information technologies (i.e. Internet technologies) and ideas from new high-tech industries to change the way it interacted with suppliers? IV. OBJECTIVE To be able to make the supply chain run smoothly by eliminating bottlenecking
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GREEN MARKETING IN THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY ABSTRACT Green marketing in automobile industry Green marketing is the marketing of products that are presumed to be environmentally safe. Thus green marketing incorporates a broad range of activities‚ including product modification‚ changes to the production process‚ packaging changes‚ as well as modifying advertising. Other similar terms used are Environmental Marketing and Ecological Marketing. Green‚ environmental and eco-marketing are part of the new
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the Chinese automobile industry in Egypt regarding how it mirrors on customer satisfaction‚ despite common believes China has been producing cars before the Koreans for almost over 50 years. The very first Chinese car was a poor copy of what European‚ American and Japanese manufacturers produce. It wasn’t designed with the anxiety of comfort‚ security nor style; it was more like wheeled boxes made of light steel‚ with a primitive petrol engine. After 20 years‚ Chinese automobile industry has finally
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SULLIVAN’S AUTO WORLD Walter Sullivan the creator of Sullivan Ford Auto World pass away and his oldest daughter Carol Sullivan-Diaz‚ a health care administrator by profession took over the business and found out that the family business is in economic trouble founded on existing financial performance and market outlook. In addition‚ CSAT results from car buyers show that the company has problems with their service quality. Sullivan Ford Auto World Facts: - Average sales of 1‚100 cars per
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Automobile industry The auto industry of India‚ with an annual production of around 22 million vehicles‚ is one of the largest in the world in FY 2013-14. It accounts for 22% of the country’s manufacturing gross domestic product (GDP). Various initiatives by the Government of India and the major automobile players in the Indian market‚ it is expected to make India a leader in the Two Wheeler and Four Wheeler market in the world by 2020. The demand for two wheeler & car segment is increasing because
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penetration at the bottom of the value pyramid by making the M-800 more affordable. Indian Automobile IndustryThe Indian automobile industry has four major segments -- commercial vehicles (CVs)‚ passenger vehicles‚ three wheelers‚ and two wheelers. The market share for each of these segments of the Indian automobile industry‚ for the year 2003-04‚ is shown in Figure I. According to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) ‚ the Indian passenger vehicle market has three categories -- passenger
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The Ford Model T is a vehicle that was produced by Henry Ford’s Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927. The Model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile became popular. It is generally regarded as the first affordable auto‚ the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American; some of this was because of Ford’s innovations‚ including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting. The first production Model T was produced on August 12‚ 1908 and left the factory
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Automobile Industry PEST Analysis 1. Political Factors A) Environment Concerns: Leading to the quest for eco-friendly cars‚ people would prone to buy hybrid or even pure electric cars in the future. B) Government Regulations: Limitation on high emission car purchase‚ and the restrictive passage of autos in downtown area‚ as well as the limitation on license plate (number plate) in huge cosmopolitans. C) Some pioneering states in the US have started to set the rules to govern robotized
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Having taken look at the segmentation of the automobile market in the last post‚ we shall now take a look at the segmentation of the computer market; which is one of the fastest growing markets globally. · Geographic segmentation In the segmentation of computers‚ geographical segmentation yet again plays a very important role. This is because the demands of people would vary according to their regions. A very good example of this is the computer market in India. Few years ago‚ laptops
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Nationalization of Industries in Pakistan and impact on Automobile Industry: Following the progressive manufacturing period‚ nationalization of industries under Economic Reforms order had a profound impact on automobile industry in Pakistan. In early 1972 under Martial Law Regulation‚ the Government took over the control of 32 industrial units‚ including eight automobile plants‚ under the officially appointed Board of Industrial Management with the Minister for Production as its Chairman. Out of
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