Toyota Strategic Information Systems

Toyota Cars
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Introduction
2952751008380020000Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) is one of the leading car manufacturers in terms of sales and production. The company was founded by Toyoda Kiichiro in 1837 with its headquarters in Toyota city, Tokyo. The company’s logo is three overlapping ovals.
The company uses organizational control using tactics, strategy, and operational oversight to improve its business processes. This strategies position Toyota cars as more superior cars than the competitor’s. This enables the customers to pay more attention to the product (Toyota.com, 2012).
The Hierarchical Perspective ‘Pyramid’
Sources: (Rainer, et al. 2011).
The common systems in use at operational level of Toyota motors is the transaction processing systems that focus on operational decisions. It is important to state that transaction processing systems are systems that collect, store, monitor and process data generated from the business transactions of the company. The transaction data acts as the input to the company’s database (Kelly, et al. 2007). Toyota Motor Corporation's has used transaction processing systems to help senior managers make important tactical decisions. An example of a tactical decision was the development of vehicle production system sometimes called "Just-in-Time (JIT) system," or "lean manufacturing system". This is production control system developed by the company based on many years of continuous improvements enhanced by its transaction processing systems (Kelly, et al. 2007). The vehicle production system helps the company to make vehicles ordered by customers in a quick and most efficient way with an aim of delivering the vehicl...