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1. Ethics and Quality Assurance

For this component of your course project, complete the following:

Describe Toyota's underlying concept of ethics for supply chain management.

Explain how Toyota's ethical concept ensures quality throughout the supply chain.

Define Toyota's quality benchmarks and efforts to ensure continuous quality improvement of the benchmarks.

Apply your understanding of information infrastructures-also known as knowledge management-to describe Toyota's use of knowledge management throughout the supply chain.

2. Japanese Auto Supply Assessment

For this component of your course project, complete the following:

Use the systems thinking approach to describe the strengths, the weaknesses, the opportunities, and the threats in the Japanese auto supply chain, as presented in the "Supply Chain Challenges in Post-Earthquake Japan" case study (pages 421-422 in your Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management textbook).

Support your identified strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats with sound reasoning and references.

Be sure to identify areas that provide a strategic advantage to Japanese auto suppliers, and those that provide a competitive threat that competitors may be able to exploit.

Update your systems map of the Japanese auto supply chain to indicate where your identified strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are located in the system.

3. Conclusions and Future Model

For this component of your course project, complete the following:

Research and analyze potential improvements to the Japanese auto supply chain, as presented in the "Supply Chain Challenges in Post-Earthquake Japan" case study (pages 421-422 in your Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management textbook).

Use the analysis from your Unit 4 assessment to propose potential solutions to the problems you identified.

Explain why and how your proposed solutions will improve the Japanese auto supply chain.

4. Systems Dynamics and Supply Chain Management

This assignment is the final component of your course project. For this assignment:

Integrate and revise the systems maps from your individual assignments to create a holistic, interactive, and transdisciplinary system map of the current state of the Japanese auto supply chain.

Integrate the analyses from your previous assignments to create a cohesive explanation of your overall analysis, defense of your systems map, conclusions, and future model for the supply chain.