| dc.description.abstract | The main purpose of this study focuses on the Taiwan automobile industry which is facing a severe competitive environment under the globalization. After Taiwan’s entrance of WTO in January 2002, the import restriction is entirely lifted; market is open to the international suppliers. For the survival, the automobile industry has to introduce advanced management ideology in which the knowledge created value chain prevails. Through the satellite onfiguration and the flexible manufacturing system, it is intended to promote the productivity, to obtain reasonable cost, high quality, flexible delivery in an effort to reduce the production cost to the minimum, so as to
sharpen its competitive edge, satisfy the customers’ requirement and to achieve successful export both of automobiles and parts.
This study mainly concerns the integrated performance of the supply chain management and the lean production. The study is
divided into four parts. Part One deals with the proper way the automobile industry has to follow and make itself fitting to the gradual reduction in import tariff, the relaxation of local fabrication ratio, the
openness to export countries after Taiwan becomes a WTO membership since January 1, 2002. Part Tow proposes operation strategy to form an integral system in which the local and kick-down (KD) imported parts suppliers should organize a tier 1 supplier
federate to provide the quality and technical services, and to set up material down stream flow, IT system, business internet and enterprise resource planning (ERP). For the automobile manufacturers, this integrated system will upgrade the productive efficiency. Part Three analyzes the way to solidify the production system of Taiwan top four manufacturers (Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi), as well as more than thousand parts suppliers and distributors. Part Four reestablishes the Taiwan automobile core competitive edge by combining the domestic automobile and parts
manufacturing facilities,, the manufacturing facilities on both strait and in the southeast Asia under the strong pressure rendered by globalization, e-commercialization, foreign automobile exporters who have supremacy over Taiwan automobile industry. An integrated supply chain management is best defined a series
of high performance management and Ford/Toyota production system (FPS/TPS) by which the joint effort provided customers, suppliers, manufacturers to create, distribute and support the optimized final
products. The main purpose is to concentrate on the effective and harmonious coordination to ensure that each participant’s resources
will proficiently meet the supply chain requirements with the most optimized efficiency. Besides the advantages of traditional competitive price, high quality, service and smooth distribution, it will lead the automobile industry to great success by applying supply chain,
technology and management proficiency. | en_US |