Supply chain campus

In 2010, Toyota decided to build a supply chain campus at a new location that would include its ten major suppliers. Toyota was motivated by two factors reducing its logistics cost of doing business with its supplier, and ensuring just-in-sequence deliveries from suppliers (the final assembly schedule is sent to the supplier via EDI, shortly before the actual need for the item). 

To meet the needs of the automaker within the campus, the supplier needed to perform a series of changes in its internal supply chain processes. The supplier moved processes (6) to (10) to the campus as they needed to be completed in real time, while processes (1) to (5) remained at their current location. The supplier bore the responsibility for all transportation between its current plant and the new campus. The automaker managed its final assembly line at the campus using a novel system called jumbiki which required short replenishment cycles of procurement from its suppliers. The supplier s facility within the campus, in essence, acted as an extension of Toyota s final assembly line. Thus, when the vehicle body was about to leave the paint shop, Toyota notified the vehicle s final configuration, as well its final sequencing on the assembly line, via EDI to the suppliers. 

Did you hear there was an attempted rape by a masked man on the campus last night Fred, along with all the other male students, was asked to supply a sample of hair or skin for DNA analysis. What do you suppose that will tell the police Some parts of the sequence of these long chains are characteristic of the person who made them and cannot occur in anyone else in this exact sequence. Hence, DNA sampling is used to characterize a person. All that is needed is a small piece of hair, a flake of skin or a minute drop of body fluid for analysis to show up this sequence (see also Chapter 11). 

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