Title:
A Case Study of Network
Activities of Tier 2 Supplier
Abstract: In this paper, the authors examine network
activities of tier 2supplier from the viewpoint of corporate management.
In particular, the authors pay attention to a typical case of Sankyo Plastic
Kogyo Co. Ltd. (SPK), a tier 2 supplier of the auto-maker of Mazda. SPK is
located in the north-west part of Hiroshima and the problems of SPK could
be considered as common issues of all tier 2 suppliers because it is a typical
company in the network of Mazda. The environment surrounded with SPK has
taken place greatly because the acquisition policy of Mazda has been changed
greatly. The authors discuss the successful factors of supplier network,
and plan to provide theoretical foundations of quantitative analysis. The
authors found that a new viewpoint of supplier network is much useful rather
than vertical network to understand the new trend of network structure of
parts-suppliers.
Author: Hiroshi Kimura and Takao Ito