Ford Production System
In restructuring plan, Ford 2000, the most important of all is re-engineering projects; one of these projects is Ford Production System, an information system to achieve a close relationship to suppliers. The aim is to improve the process on making motor to be more pull-based system, in synchronization with production, continuous flow, and stability throughout the process. To achieve that, Ford could tell suppliers exactly when and where certain components will be needed days in advance, and thus the buffer stocks could be reduced dramatically. If this system is succesfull, the benefits would be felt throughout the supply chain.
-Order to Delivery
Another key process in Ford reengineering projects is to improve the customer relationship management system. The information system to achieve this is Order to Delivery. The purpose of this is to reduce the lead time to 15 days. The Order to Delivery vision was to create a lean and flexible process that brought together the efforts of all of Ford’s components to enable it to provide consumers with right product in right place at right time, which means that it will help Ford Motor Company meet the just-in-time technique. By achieving this, Ford believed that it would provide better quality, better customer satisfaction, improved customer selection, increased plant productivity, stable supply base, and lower dealer/company costs.
- Ford Retail Network
On July 1st , 1998, Ford Motor Company launched the first