Essays on Automobile Manufacturers

Factors that Influence Purchasing Relationship in Automobile Industry of China

Introduction The USA, Western Europe, and Japan markets for the automobiles are almost stagnating causing an increased attention and concern to the world automotive industry. They have turned their interest in China market for cars. This is associated with the fast growing economy in China unlike that of European nations and the USA. The Chinese market for cars is indeed the turning point for all auto companies. The environment is conducive to start production in China to supply the potential markets and then export from there to other world markets. This literature will focus on the purchasing relationship in ...

Christian Gerdes is a professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University and studies how car move and how people drive cars. This kind of research is important for designing new self-driving cars. However, in his Ted Talk Christian Gerdes is not trying to convey that the future of the cars will rely only on self-driving technology. The purpose of his talk is to show that despite recent technological breakthroughs, people should be praised for their fascinating physical and mental abilities that they usually show in the extreme situations, for example when race drivers have to drive at a high ...

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In this paper, the author analyzes the case on the troubled alliance between Volkswagen and Suzuki, two of the biggest and most popular auto-makers in the respective regions that they cater. Suzuki is famous for their small, petite, and fuel efficient cars in Asia. Volkswagen, on the other hand, is famous for their powerful, elegant, and fuel efficient cars in Europe and the Americas. Because of the theory that was posed earlier suggesting that in the current industry environment, most automobile manufacturers are on a constant lookout for more ways to expand—the fastest way possible. From the start, ...

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Effective supply chain plays a critical role in a nosiness. It is worth noting that the Darden’s restaurant have focused on enhancing supply chain on achieving competitive advantage. Darden’s is a restaurant that has unique supply chains. The supply chain is streamlined towards the menu options provided by the restaurant. The restaurant has four supply chains. Each of the Darden’s supply chain has specific advantages. The first supply chain is the Darden Direct Distribution. The advantage is that it reduced the shipping prices of various small items. This is because a single warehouse has items that ...