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Milestone Two: Nissan Case Study Nissan, one of the largest Japanese automobile company and how they endured some of the most significant challenges before and after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake in Japan. However, on March 11, 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami struck the coast of Japan resulting in a devastating impact on the Japanese economy were more than 80% of the automobile industry stop producing including Nissan original equipment manufacturers (OEM) (Schmidt & Smichi-Levi, 2013). Even though Nissan Motor’s net worth has reached 48.1 billion dollars today, a few years before the devastating earthquake Nissan automobile faced many obstacles like bankruptcy, along with the Global Liquidity Crisis before entering a global alliance with Renault of France (Staff, 2010). In results, the huge …show more content…

(2014). Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chanin Management. Retrieved March 13, 2018, from Perason, 20160222 VitalBook file. Inman, A. (2017). LOCATION STRATEGY. Retrieved March 31, 2018, from Reference for Business: http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/management/Int-Loc/Location-Strategy.html Markgraf, B. (2017). Limitations of the Theory of Constraints. Retrieved March 26, 2018, from AZ Central: https://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/limitations-theory-constraints-16352.html Schmidt, W., & Smichi-Levi, D. (2013, August 27). Nissan Motor Company Ltd.: Building Operational Resiliency. Retrieved March 12, 2018, from mitsloan.mit.edu: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/LearningEdge/CaseDocs/13-149%20Nissan.Simchi-Levi.pdf Siali, F., Yao, L., & Kie, C. (2013, May 24). Inventory Management and Logistics Cost Reduction. Retrieved March 27, 2018, from Scientific Research: http://file.scirp.org/pdf/TI_2013080614193089.pdf Staff, H. (2010). Nissan Motor Company founded. Retrieved March 15, 2018, from History.com:

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