Toyota Management System: Linking the Seven Key Functional Areas

by Yasuhiro Monden

Overview

Here is the first comprehensive and systematic explanation of the management system that drives the world's leading automaker. The development of JIT production at Toyota and the company's achievement of unprecedented levels of productivity were made possible by its supportive, integrated management system. This book reveals for the first time exactly how that management system works. It looks carefully at each of Toyota's seven management subsystems and how they work as an integrated whole.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563271397
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/13/1997
Series:	Classics in Paperback
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Yasuhiro Monden

Table of Contents

Financial Management System Target Costing and Kaizen Costing in the Japanese Automobile Industry Functional Management to Promote Companywide Coordination: Total Quality Control and Total Cost Management Flat Organization and Personnel Management Sales Management System New Product Development System Production Management System: Integration of SIS, CIM, and JIT International Production Strategies of Japanese Automakers

Editorial Reviews

No help in making your foreign car behave. A systematic and comprehensive explanation of the management system that drives the Japanese automobile megacorporation. Examines each of the seven management subsystems, and describes how they interrelate for maximum effectiveness. For general and department managers. Translated from the Japanese, but apparently not previously published. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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