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, Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:23:54
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Randy, I would love to learn more from you. (or at least I did when I was in school)
Anyway, I doubt Toyota's increased price will help US automakers. Only sure thing that can save US automakers are quality cars that sells. It matters less what the profit margins and costs are or what the competitors are doing. I think if they concentrate on that, they can help themselves without asking for a help. After all, it was American named Deming(?) who came up with all the technique Japanese automakers are using: kaizen, kanban, JIT, etc.
So why can't they learn from that and implement? Cars are made up with parts from many different vendors, so they need to treat vendors as the most important thing in their company. If the parts sucks, than the whole sucks even more! Yet US automakers have treated stockholders as the most important thing in their company... They are not a bank. They are auto manufacturing company. Put 100% of your effort in builting a better product and rest (profit) will follow. Not quick fix to bring the stock price up to make the stockholders happy.
And if they are going to ask for a help, don't ask them to increase their price or decrease their quality (thank god Toyota isn't doing that), but ask them to design the whole process. Design of the plant, location of the suppliers, working relationship with the vendors, better supply chain flow, inventory management, etc. That may be the quickest way out of their troubled road that they are traveling.
Also this is a class discrimination. People who can afford will buy nice cars. They don't care about the price. Only ones who will suffer is the low class who were struggling to keep the Toyota payment. Now these people have to pay just as much for US made cars and it's repairs so that it's lower resale value isn't going to be even lower.
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