High level of Toyota supply-chain resilience


Proactive company: A file picture showing an employee at a Toyota assembly line. Investors aren’t unduly worried about the system glitch even though the carmaker continues to have a backlog of cars it’s yet to deliver to customers. —AFP

WHEN the world’s biggest carmaker shut operations affecting almost half its global production on Tuesday, investors shrugged.

This kind of nonchalance highlights the extent to which Toyota Motor Corp has built a level of supply-chain resilience that instills confidence in the toughest of times.

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