Multinational companies have expanded their supply chain across Asia to enjoy the benefits of Free Trade Agreements and Economic Partnership Agreements. They have to manage their upstream and downstream supply chain for procurement and sale, in which various kinds of materials/parts and products are distributed with different requirements transportation costs and lead-time. It is therefore desi…
The procurement of automotive parts efficiently from remote suppliers under poor logistics infrastructure conditions has become a critical issue for car manufacturers located in inland China. This study explores how Japanese auto manufactures located in Sichuan, China have established its automotive parts procurement network and improve its distribution system to cope with severe logistics infr…