Hub Group Earns Toyota 2006 Kaizen Challenge Award
Hub Group, Inc. (www.hubgroup.com) has been awarded Toyotas prestigious North American Parts Operations (NAPO) 2006 Kaizen Challenge Award.
Downers Grove, IL (PRWEB) September 21, 2006 -- Hub Group, Inc. (www.hubgroup.com) has been awarded Toyotas prestigious North American Parts Operations (NAPO) 2006 Kaizen Challenge Award. Kaizen is a critical component of the Toyota Production System (TPS) management practice, and this award recognizes Hub Group not only for its ability to work in partnership with Toyota management, but for significant performance and efficiency improvements achieved in product deliveries to Toyotas U.S. Parts Delivery Centers (PDCs) across the country.
It is an honor to earn this type of recognition from a world-class customer like Toyota," said David P. Yeager, Vice Chairman and CEO of Hub Group. Our team goes the extra mile to provide customers with superior levels of performance, quality and delivery, and this award affirms that."
The kaizen team, comprised of both Hub Group and Toyota professionals, was able to significantly reduce bunching" (the tendency for inbound container volumes arriving at PDCs to fluctuate unevenly throughout the week), improve on-time performance (from not late" to not late and not early"), and to reduce costs by eliminating rail detention and storage for the Toyota PDCs.
"We are very proud of the relationship that we have developed with Hub Group over the past 10 years," said Tony Minyon, National Logistics Manager, Toyota Motor Sales. They have embraced kaizen, and have excelled with it."
Minyon continues, Over the past four years, we have expanded the Kaizen Challenge program to where, last year, we had 102 logistics partners trained, from 17 companies. Altogether, there were 20 outstanding kaizens submitted, and Hub Group lead this distinguished list.
We are extremely grateful for Hubs leadership," he added.
As a result of the success of this initiative, additional Toyota PDCs have been added to the program. Since Kaizen is a continuing process, further improvements will be explored and documented throughout Toyotas PDC system.
"Toyota has been more than generous with its investment in time and resources in sharing TPS management principles and its culture of Kaizen with Hub Group," said David Porter, Vice President Sales, Western Region. As a result, Hub has developed skills that have fostered growth opportunities outside of NAPO. More importantly, this process has empowered Hub to deliver a much improved service, not only to Toyota, but to all of our customers."
NAPO was established to improve local parts sourcing and manage a parts distribution network that supplies all North American Toyota distributors, as well as U.S. Toyota, Lexus and Scion dealers. Additionally, U.S. parts are exported to parts centers in Japan and Europe for worldwide distribution. Parts Distribution Centers are located in California, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, Ohio, and Oregon. Third-party facilities operate in Florida and Texas. For more information, please visit: www.toyota.com.
Hub Group, Inc. is a leading asset-light freight transportation management company providing comprehensive intermodal, truckload brokerage and logistics services. The Company operates through a network of over 30 offices located across the United States, Canada and Mexico. For more information please visit: www.hubgroup.com
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