Toyota chooses Canadian-based supply chain planning system

OTTAWA — Kinaxis Inc, provider of RapidResponse, a cloud-based supply chain management solution based on concurrent planning, has landed a contact to manage  Toyota Motor Corporation’s automotive demand and supply chain processes.

Headquartered in Japan, Toyota, one of the world’s largest automotive manufacturers, will replace its manual planning systems with RapidResponse to unify the company’s global demand and supply planning between its sales and production divisions, and to help better manage vehicle and unit volume.

“We are looking forward to working with Kinaxis to optimize inventory and enable more flexible responses to customer demand. RapidResponse will help us unify sales and production and will become the foundation upon which we can continue to realize improvement in demand and supply planning,” said Iwao Nakano, general manager corporate IT division at Toyota.

“We are excited to help drive breakthrough results for one of the world’s most prestigious brands,” said John Sicard, CEO, Kinaxis.

“With a proven track record of increasing supply chain efficiencies for automotive manufacturers, we’re looking forward to deploying our revolutionary cloud-based concurrent planning platform to help Toyota instantly create what-if scenarios and better understand the impact of various supply change management strategies to create positive outcomes.”