Japan partnerships

Supplier partnerships or alliances have been used to control the cost of procurement. They are based on methods developed in Japan, initially in the automobile industry. These methods have been extended into the process industry and for the purchase of such items as compressor trains. Generally as originally conceived, they were intended mainly for commodity items. By using some innovative approaches, the concept of partnerships or alliances has been extended into the purchase of custom equipment. 

GM and Federal Express announced a partnership where the HydroGen3 fuel cell vehicle will be used by Federal Express in the first commercial use of a fuel cell vehicle in Japan. FedEx will use the HydroGen3 vehicle during one year for regular delivery services in two downtown districts of Tokyo. GM also launched a Washington-based fleet of hydrogen-powered vehicles. 

Joint Research Center for Atom Technology (JRCAT) and Angstrom Technology Partnership (ATP), Ibaraki, Japan... 

Meanwhile, massive investments are being made in new petrochemical and refinery plants in China, the Middle East and India. Saudi Arabia is vastly increasing the size of its petrochemicals facilities, often in partnership with leading global oil companies. In India, one of the world s largest refinery complexes was completed in December 2008. Reliance Industries Ltd., invested 6 billion to double its Jamnagar refinery near the Pakistani border, which is now producing at full capacity of 580,000 barrels per day. Approximately 60% of new refinery construction is in Asia and the Middle East, predominantly in China, India, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Kuwait and Japan. One of the leaders in the investment in new refineries is Saudi Aramco. 

It was Sony s technical and product development capabilities, however, not Matsushita s marketing ones, that were primarily responsible for Japan s epic conquest of world markets. Sony created the barriers to entry that drove all the U.S. competitors and, in time, the one European competitor. Philips, out of the audio and video industry. Akio Morita and an associate formed in 1946 a partnership that became known as Sony its first major successful product, introduced in 1955, was a transistor-based miniature radio. In the early 1960s Morita built, following Matsushita s example, a... 

International HapMap Project. URL http //www.hapmap.org/. Partnership of scientists and funding agencies from Canada, China, Japan, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States to develop a public haplotype map that will help researchers find genes associated with human disease and response to pharmaceuticals. 

The United States has become the major exporter of soybeans and soybean products in the world, and Japan continues to be one of its major trading partners. A research partnership played a role in this development. In 1958, to learn more about the needs of the Japanese food processing industry, the NCAUR invited Japanese scientists to Peoria. Dr. Tokuji Watanabi from the National Food Research Institute demonstrated the methods for traditional Japanese tofu making so that U.S. soybean varieties could be evaluated and selected for the Japanese market. Similarly, Dr. Kazuo Shibasaki from Tohoku University partnered in re-... 

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