Abstract Losing a day of production does not sit well with Toyota management, so when its Georgetown, Kentucky, plant had to shut down for a day because a Midwest ice storm prevented passage of parts necessary for production, Japan's largest automaker decided it should get better at tracking and responding to the weather and hired Weather Data Inc. to be its own private forecasting company. ... So this past December, Toyota hired a small company from Wichita, KS, Weather Data Inc., for its own private forecasting agency in North America. ... The benefits are numerous: An emphasis on wo...

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One solution to this change is creation of extranet that links and allows trading partners "customers, warehouses, suppliers, drivers, rail partners "independent of their internal resources, efficient interaction with the supply chain. It is that information technology provides the underlying links as well as the logistics data collection and analysis platform for all these activities. ... He described that to meet customer demand for seamless, comprehensive and reliable information on which to base business decisions today, company must integrate data from the many sources involved ...

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