Autotech company is an automotive manufacturing and supply company. It has started its business as a family business. Nowadays it is one of the fast growing automotive companies. Currently it is facing complex operation of its business as it keeps all records such as billing, inventory, personnel, customers, products, stock, financial etc. in hard copy format such as files, note, books etc. It is very tough to maintain files, papers, notes manually for an extensive time, which is time consuming, costly as well not accurate as paper work is required more time and their maintenance cost is more than soft copy storage and maintenance. As per my point of view, Autotech needs to develop Information Systems in its business to make easy and …show more content…
Moreover, Autotech will have competitive advantage in terms of cost effective and unique products and services as these systems can support in Research and development of Products, services, production process. With ISs, Autotech will able to obtain innovative design of auto parts, production process, modify auto parts, improve auto parts quality, improve production schedules. IS recognise and generate new products and services to grow new markets to drastically change business process via adopting digital forming and simulation of product, design to diminish time and cost of market. Moreover, Information systems manage all the supply chain process from raw materials to where the end product is used. ISs keep records of supply, distribution, storage of goods, manage transport and distribution centres with accuracy and fast. Telecommunication network provides better capability and opportunities in logistics. Supply chain, production process, manufacturing process will impact on sale of Autotech company’s products as Autotech will have quality and cost efficient products. As well, these systems will help to demonstrate and present products to customers in strategic way and product design, scheduling, quality can manage through Information systems. Autotech needs to collect and analyse data of customers’ requirement and their feedback of their products which will be provided by these systems with less
Joesph R. “Pitt” Hyde III, founded Auto Shack in 1979, opening its first location in Forrest City, Arkansas. Before opening his first location, Pitt previously worked with for his grandfather, the founder of Malone & Hyde, a wholesale food company. During his tenure, Pitt found a void in the automobile industry and saw a need for a retail automotive parts store. Pitt knew about the required vehicle upkeep that the average consumer needs and wanted to create similar characteristics that supermarkets possess (“Auto Zone Story”, 2017). By 1984, five years after it opened it first location, Auto Shack great to almost 200 stores. As the organization continued to expand, its name transitioned to AutoZone and by 1991, AutoZone nearly tripled its location numbers to 600 and the company went public. One year later, AutoZone’s sales reached $1 billion (Parnell, 2014).
In this world of technology and innovation even Ford Motor Company is investing in new technologies in order to improvised their supply chain management, build an environment with interaction between each department as well as suppliers in order to reduce the bridging gap between them. As it is a leader in auto market segment, needs to update and coop with time and technology periodically but due to huge competition from the Japanese auto makers like Toyota, Honda, and Nissan, Suzuki etc., who are strong and powerful with references to the supply chain process management due to which Ford market share dip compared to others as well as the sales also declined. During this time, Ford analysed the situation and thought positively and started improvement in the supply chain management.
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AutoZone is an aftermarket auto parts retailer headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. AutoZone focused on the do-it-yourself weekend mechanic and small professional mechanic shops. It specializes in delivering low-cost replacement auto parts. AutoZone has many competitors, auto dealership parts counter, Advanced Auto Parts, O’Riley’s Auto Parts, Napa, and other discount auto parts stores, including online stores and junk yards. AutoZone strategy is delivering low-cost quality auto parts. As a weekend warrior, I have price compared between several auto parts stores when working on my dad’s old Ford. While price comparing, AutoZone was the cheapest of all the other auto parts stores. With the rising costs of automobiles and skyrocketing car loan
The figure illustrates that Australian is among the highest labour country as compared to other higher automotive countries. Car industry workers in Australia are waged About $50 an hour when all taxes, privileges and other benefits are included, compared to $32 an hour for industrial workers across all sectors. According to local factory sources, labour financial statement for 65percent of an automobile’s manufacturing cost in Australia. The budgets of producing motor vehicles in Australia is more as compared to some other countries. Holden Ford and some other countries stated that the cost of motor vehicles trade in Australia is two times higher than in Europe, and four times higher in Asia. The high cost producer of vehicles is because
Ajidesigner Company is a business that specializes specifically in the retailing of women’s quality real handbags, Handmade Beads jewelry, Belts, and wallets from the original cow hide leather from Italy. Through Ajidesigner Company store, Company proposes to sell different design women’s handbag line and handmade bead jewelry from Africa in the quality high- end designer to grab customer’s attention. Ajidesigner Company will launch stores worldwide to generate sales to increase company profits. This strategy will allow Ajidesigner businesses to reach profitability very
Ever since the 2008 recession US automobile companies have been on a steady downhill slide, but actually you can trace this downward trend even further back than 2008. US car companies have been feeling the heat since as early as the late 1980s when Japanese car companies laid claim to American manufacturing plants . Despite a shot in the arm in sales over the past five years, American firms are still on the decline. This case analysis aims to diagnosis the problem, provide analysis of the problem, and propose a viable solution to the problem from the perspective of the US automobile market share leader, General Motors.
Autozone founded by J.R. Hyde III. Opened Auto Shack in 1979, an automotive parts store. Autozone became the official name in 1987. Hyde built his business on the big box stores business model and focused on smaller trade in the South and Southeast, highlighting service and every day low prices. The auto parts retailer experienced early success and grew to nearly 200 stores by 1984 (Parnell, 2014). AutoZone operates eight distribution centers in the U.S. compared to 28 facilities for O’Reilly Auto Parts, one of its principal competitors (Memphisdailynews.com, 2015).
Chung Ju-yung founded Hyundai Motors in 1967. The main headquarters of this company is based in South Korea. The main area it specializes is automobile industry. They first started with assembling cars and trucks for Ford. The first car they launched was Hyundai Cortina in 1975, which was in tie-up with Ford Company. Just in 2 years period of time they were the 13th largest in the world with the share of 2% in the global retail market.
General Motors is one of the largest car manufacturing companies in the world. Best known for their automobiles, General motors have become a household name and an empire. It did so not only by selecting the right brands and manufacturers to work with but by remaining innovative and creating designs as rapidly as society develops. If you don’t think of GM when thinking of the auto industry, surely one of their many popular brands comes to mind.
The automobile manufactures belief that expansion of a company in increase in the global competitive market explains that the firm is likely to face competitive environment. Many companies are forced to develop their supply chain according to the decision by reducing their manufacturing expenditure and improvement of the products. JLRs decision to build a new plant in the North America to serve the customers is taken for customer satisfaction and values and to avoid all the barriers between the ultimate customers and the suppliers. For a positive supply chain, many decisions involving to the flow of product and information are required. Efficiency of the work done is very much essential in any company. To increase the efficiency of the company the best key is to connect with the suppliers online by sharing the future plans and decisions of the company. This kind of sharing will help the company in considering the proper data and information of the demand or requirement of the company. E-Collaboration with the suppliers gives great benefits to the company. Technologies such as inventory planning, online analytical processing and enterprise resource planning help in collaborating with the suppliers in a best possible way. The inventory planning helps in forecasting the demand of the products or services in the market. The online analytical processing gives a detail note of the past performances from various suppliers which can help in the current efficiency. And the
In any market there are opportunities to be found. The automotive market is no different. For example, there has been a trend growing in the automotive market, which leans toward renewable energies and those vehicles that will leave less of an impact on their surrounding environment. Green technologies are tied into political agendas and public opinion. Porsche Automotive Group has not missed this less than subtle hint. In keeping with this trend, in the pasted decade Porsche has been developing electric cars (Porsche SE Group, 2016). Another opportunity that exists for Porsche Automotive Group is also one of their weaknesses. It is the fact that they specialize in luxury vehicles for an exclusive class of society. The current
Research and development activities affect the competitive advantages of automobile manufacturers due to the important of them in production line efficiency and customer decision making. The emerging of new technologies such as Hybrid, Artificial Intelligent (AI) and new energy sources has incredible effects on automobile manufacturing industry since those new technologies change the perception of customers on their mobility concept.
Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) is a Germany-based automobile, motorcycle as well as engine manufacturing company which was incorporated in 1917 (Franzen,2007).The company is headquarters in Germany at Munich, Bavaria. BMW also manufactures the Minimarque and is Rolls-Royce Motor Car's parent company. The company is noted by Markets and Research (2009) to be the world's largest premium car maker. The year 2006 saw the company confirm its position as the global leader in premium car manufacturing in the automobile sector with record sales as well as profits that were in excess of 4 billion (BMW Group,2007). Since its humble inception, the company's brand name has stood for one thing in the mind of the consumer: sheer driving pleasure. This is because for several drivers, owning a BMW is like owning a brand which can be equated to efficiency, quality as well as engineering expertise (Trout,2005).BMW therefore has maintained its position as the be the world's leading premium car manufacturer in terms of volume and sales (BMW Group,2011).BMW's three automobile brands namely BMW, Rolls-Royce and MINI are noted by the group to have set new individual records. A total of 113,000 clients are noted to have purchased a Husqvarna or BMW motorcycle. BMW Group (2011) also noted that their Financial Services subsidiary also contributed to their success in global sales.
The Suzuki Company, since its establishment as a textile industry venture, and the subsequent later diversification into the motor vehicle industry, has applied the subsidiaries expansion approach. In this regard, besides having its key manufacturing facility in Japan, Suzuki expanded its operations into India and Pakistan among other Asian nations through establishing organizational subsidiaries in the respective markets. A subsidiary expansion approach involves the development of organizational production unites in the new markets, which, besides following the strategic guidelines and strategies as per the headquarters, have their own production schedules and designs. In this regard, the subsidiaries operate as unique and autonomous profit unit centres in the respective markets.