The confernce was held on Nov.11, 2006. Judged by the name of the conference, Toyota might sponspored the conference. It was held on Oakland Center, Oakland University.
Vice President, Purchasing, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing NA, Mr. Simon Nagata, presented and gave a opening speech on Toyota's View on Supplier Relations. One representative from Toyota presented the way Toyota deals with its suppliers.
Two famous people, previous Chrysler president, Thomas T. Stallkamp, and The Toyota Way author, Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, Prof. Jeffrey K. Liker, are also two main speakers. Tom Stallkamp was famous figure in Chrysler. Heard about of him when I first started my job with Chrysler in 2000. He is the father of the Chrysler Expanded Enterprise program, SCORE. A book on this topic was just published by Mr. Stallkamp. Prof. Liker presented the part related with supplier relationship of his famous book.
A professor from Okaland University gave a presentaion on how supplier relationship is impacting the a firm's competetive advatages. He has a consulting firm focusing on supplier management. His presentation is full of tables based on the data his firm collected during the past years. Name of the professor is John W. Henke, Jr. His firm is Planning Perspectives, Inc.
The Toyota cheif mentioned in the meeting this is first effort Toyota is making to introduce its supplier relationship managenent policy.
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