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Essay by dedemaUniversity, Bachelor'sA+, March 2014

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Introduction

The operation plays key role in firms because it affects operation managers understand their customers and translate their customers' needs into performance objectives. "In turn, the performance objectives (and especially the relative importance of each one) influence the overall operations strategy of the business". (Slack et al., 2010,) The reason is that managers can based on performance objectives to do decision because it is reflection of corporation strengths and weaknesses. This essay will describe the Toyota Motor Corporation performance around five-performance objective: quality, speed, dependability, flexibility and cost. Then following discussion of how Toyota uses techniques in operation management to achieve the five objectives. Based on analysis, some suggestions for this firm will shows in the conclusion.

Five Performance Objectives In Toyota

As most successful car manufacturer in the world, Toyota is a few automobile companies that able to be stockless production system by its unique operational management systems, the most famous Toyota Production System (TPS) and Just-In-Time (JIT). Further, in terms of five performance objectives, which Toyota did quite well in the overall circumstances, especially in the cost, speed and flexibility areas. Toyota cooperation was chosen to analysis because its significant performances and great operations management. Organizations can respond to the performance objectives, but the real challenge is to offer better quality, speed, dependability and flexibility at lower costs than the competition. (Slack et al., 2007) Also, the aim and objective of Toyota is making low-cost, high-efficiency, high-quality production to maximize customer satisfaction and keeping strong competitiveness. (Toyota, 2011)

Quality

Quality can be defined as "specification" of a product or service, also meaning high specification and must satisfy your customers by providing error-free goods and services, which are "fit for their purpose". (Pycraft, 2000) The external affect of good quality within in operations is that the customers...