Toyota Boshoku Corporation

Main Purchasing Items and Organization

Purchasing Division

  • Purchasing Dept. No.1
  • Purchasing Dept. No.2
  • Purchasing Dept. No.3
  • Global Purchasing Planning Dept.
  • Global SPTT & Quality Dept.

Purchasing Dept. No.1

Main Purchasing Items Substance
  • Pressed panel parts
  • Screw parts (bolts, nuts, pins)
  • Suppliers with construction and technical strengths capable of furnishing press parts to the Kyushu region (Saga Prefecture) at low cost
  • Outer materials for automotive seats
    (urethane parts, felt parts)
  • Assembly of small products for automotive seats
  • Suppliers with construction and technical strengths capable of furnishing auto parts to the Tohoku region (Iwate Prefecture) and Kyushu region (Saga Prefecture) at low cost

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Purchasing Dept. No.2

Main Purchasing Items Substance
  • Automobile interior trim parts
    (resin parts, molded non-woven cloth parts, etc.)
  • Electronic parts for automotive interior
    (room lamp, illumination )
  • Wire harness for seats
  • General electronic parts
  • Consumables, miscellaneous goods
  • Industrial chemicals, oils and fats, fuels, etc.
  • Resign, urethene, steel materials
  • Epidermis materials such as Fabrics, carpets, headliners
  • Suppliers capable of furnishing resin parts (more than 250t) at low cost and certainly keep the quality and delivery date
  • Suppliers capable of proposing and evaluating new materials and manufacturing methods for automotive interior trim
  • Suppliers capable of furnishing room lamp, illumination, and wire harness at low cost, and capable of proposing and evaluating new materials and manufacturing methods

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Purchasing Dept. No.3

Main Purchasing Items Substance
  • Various tools, machine and equipment, mold tool
  • Suppliers capable of ensuring reliable quality and delivery management
  • Suppliers capable of furnishing products at lower cost and with higher quality than those the company is currently purchasing
  • Suppliers capable of furnishing press parts, rubber and resign parts at low cost, ensuring reliable quality and delivery management
  • Suppliers capable of proposing and evaluating new materials and manufacturing methods about engine functional components
  • Parts for prototype
  • Parts for air cleaners and oil cleaners (press parts, rubber, resin parts, ducts, etc.)
  • Materials for air cleaners and oil cleaners (filter materials, resin, urethane, etc.)

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Global Purchasing Planning Dept.

Main Activities Substance
  • Support for activities to improve profits of integrated projects with global organizations
  • Support for purchasing functions and basic strengthening of purchasing centered on the Regional Management & Collaboration Hubs(Four global bases)
  • Plan and implement the conference on purchasing
  • Suppliers capable of proposing the "most suitable purchasing and manufacturing" for the oversers organizations
  • Management of purchasing planning and suppliers
  • Construction of purchasing system and its support
  • Support of Toyota Boshoku cooperation committee "Sunshine"
  

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Global & SPTT Quality Dept.

Main Activities Substance
  • Establishment of a "system enabling timely supplies of outsourced parts with quality, quantity, and cost advantages" through promotion of global SPTT activities
  • Suppliers with systems enabling timely supplies of parts with quality, quantity, and cost advantages
  • Establishment of a "system enabling timely supplies of outsourced parts with quality, quantity, and cost advantages" through promotion of SPTT activities in Japan
  • Suppliers with systems enabling timely supplies of parts with quality, quantity, and cost advantages
  • Activities to achieve "zero defects in deliveries" through promotion of activities to improve the quality of products from suppliers under the "mass" production control system
  • Suppliers capable of ensuring reliable quality and delivery management
  • Suppliers capable of satisfying requested quality characteristic of Toyota Boshoku and establishing daily quality control responsive to 4M fluctuations
  • *SPTT: abbreviation for Supplier Parts Tracking Team (team activities to manage production preparations for outsourced parts)

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