Introduction:

Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese automotive

manufacturer headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan.
The company was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937
In 2013 the multinational corporation consisted of 333,498
employees worldwide
As of January 2014, is the fourteenth-largest company in the
world by revenue.
Toyota has 540 consolidated subsidiaries and 226 affiliates.
Toyota's marketing efforts in North America have focused on
emphasizing the positive experiences of ownership and
vehicle quality.[
Toyotas total supply chain vision
Toyotas North American Logistics Control division
Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America
(TEMA) headquarters in Erlanger, Kentucky, has taken over or
become more involved in the central planning of logistics.
Importance of using economies of scale between all plants and
suppliers.
TEMA has a project across almost all of our plants this year to
measure internal and in-plant logistics engineering, as well as
the impacts from external providers
Centralised and de-centralised logistics

Mapping logistics flows
Defining trucking routes
1.Direct route
2.Milkrun
3. sub-routes

Rail struggles to keep up