Arrival of 50 suppliers is expected with new Toyota plant

28 November, 2016

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With the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Guanajuato (TMMGT) plant set up, the arrival of roughly 50 supply companies is expected, to further cater to the requirements for the vehicles assembled here.

In addition, over 100 companies in the zone will expand their plants, in order to qualify to provide products to the new assembler, informed Miguel Marquez Marquez, Governor of the State.

TMMGT and the factories to accompany its operation, will foster the development of the region, especially due to the viability to create approximately 10,000 indirect jobs.

Toyota’s plan to build the next-generation Corolla at a new factory in central Mexico in 2019 will take the automaker and its supply chain through a makeover on how they design, produce and deliver parts; how Toyota designs and produces vehicles from them; what materials the group uses; and how the chain makes product changes along the way.

When Toyota’s $1 billion plant in the Mexican state of Guanajuato comes online, it will be the first operation built from the ground up to embrace the Toyota New Global Architecture.

TNGA, as company executives call it, is a response to the Great Recession of 2009 and the economic and product-preference changes that followed. It is the result of Toyota’s decision to make its vehicles more flexible in design and lighter in weight; to make its factories smaller and nimbler; and to make supply chains all over the world better able to change course on short notice, more capable of improving their products and better able to help Toyota compete.

Until now, Toyota officials have shed scant light on the details of how it all will work. But as planning and execution get underway for the Mexico project, North American officials are beginning to reveal some of their thinking on what they want and how they will get there.

“We’ve had many, many communication meetings with suppliers,” Robert Young, Toyota’s North American senior vice president for purchasing, told Automotive News. “We’ve had this tremendous amount of go-and-see with suppliers in Mexico, to their plants in Japan as well, so we’re trying to ensure that our suppliers clearly understand what we’re trying to accomplish, how and when, so that they can align their schedules accordingly.”

Young says the conversations have been going on for the last two to three years.

“We’ve been front loading our collaboration with many of our supplier partners to try and come up with the best design solutions that allow us to optimize the manufacturing processes within our suppliers’ facilities,” he said.

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