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Volume 5, Issue 1
1 January 2008
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Case Report| January 01 2008

Journey to implement Toyota production system – a case study Available to Purchase

V.K. Khanna;
V.K. Khanna
Director, GIMT, 1, Knowledge Park, Phase‐II, Greater Noida – 201 306, UP, India
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar
School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology, P.O. Box No. 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani, 12120, Thailand
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2049-3207
Print ISSN: 0972-7981
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2008
Journal of Advances in Management Research (2008) 5 (1): 80–88.
https://doi.org/10.1108/97279810880001269

The paper presents the initiative taken by leading automobile Original Equipment Manufacturer (oem) XYZ in India for their implementation of Toyota Production System (TPS) to meet competitor’s challenge and its efforts to benchmark against its principle located in Japan. The paper deals with a programme involving vendor upgradation and related TPS initiatives. The paper concludes that such efforts will definitely help XYZ to optimize its productivity and to meet competitor’s challenge successfully.

Keywords:
Vendor, Up‐gradation, Productivity, TPS
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