Focused on the supply of auto industry, and especially the relationship between Johnson Controls (JCI) Georgetown plant Automotive Systems Group and its major customers, Toyota Motor Manufacturing, USA Toyota assembly plant for which JCI provides an exact day. Can be used to study different models of relationships with suppliers that were traditional in the U.S. and the Japanese auto industry, consider accessories, Toyota, made to its traditional methods to deal with the supplier of the United States, as well as to study the very high degree of coordination and cooperation, which is achieved between the two companies. Adoption JCI version Toyota production system is also discussed. "Hide
by Paul Milgrom, D. John Roberts Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business 25 pages. Publication Date: May 13, 1997. Prod. #: Be9-PDF-ENG
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