Overseas

Overseas Parts and Accessories

Just like in Japan, overseas demand for parts grew rapidly to meet the needs of motorizing populations. From the late 1980s onward, as local production of Toyota vehicles increased, Toyota improved its ability to satisfy consumers in countries around the world by developing systems to supply locally produced parts.

At the same time, it also established local organizations tasked with developing accessories suited to the needs of local consumers, bolstered marketing activities to market products and combat imitation products, and worked to make its customers safer and expand value chains.

Year
Month
Events
1957
December
First shipment of spare parts loaded on vessel bound for the U.S.
1966
November
U.S. shipments containerized
1969
January
Toyota Parts Depot Curacao established as parts center in Latin America (closed in September 1973)
September
Parts depot established in Brussels, Belgium (closed in May 1980)
October
Local procurement of accessories and parts begins in the U.S.
1970
February
Task force sent to the U.S.
1973
June
First Meeting of Parts Division General Managers held in North America;
- also held in Europe (November 1973), Southeast Asia (June 1976) and other regions; held regularly thereafter
1975
June
First Parts Seminar held in Latin America;
- also held in Africa (September 1980), the Caribbean (October 1981), and other regions; held regularly thereafter
1979
April
First sales promotion campaign launched in Southeast Asia (ongoing)
July
Award program for parts introduced in developed countries
1981
April
Safety campaign launched in Asia and Middle East to defeat counterfeit products
1982
March
Guangzhou Toyota Auto Town Station completed
1984
September
European parts catalog published (multilingual publishing commenced)
December
TEPAT, a department for European locally-procured parts, launched in Toyota Germany
1985
September
Genuine Toyota motor oil marketed overseas
1987
 
Support for improving parts supply operations based on genchi genbutsu begins
1990
 
Technical assistance contract for accessories signed with TMS (U.S.) and TMME (Europe) (signed with other regions thereafter)
1992
 
Kaizen Marathon initiative launched
1993
January
Toyota Parts Centre Europe (TPCE) begins operation
1994
 
Introduction of MVP, market value parts, commenced overseas
1996
October
North America Parts Center California (NAPCC) begins operation
1999
September
Genuine Toyota Japan-sourced LLC marketed
 
Activities launched to identify and publicize counterfeit products
2001
January
J-TACS Corp. established
February
North American Parts Center, Kentucky (NAPCK) begins operation
April
Toyota Parts Centre South of France (TPCSF) begins operation (1st stage of a pan-European parts distribution project; operation of warehouses in other areas begun thereafter)
May
TMAP Parts Consolidation Center begins operation
2002
April
Parts marketing campaign launched through Formula 1 (continued until 2008)
August
Parts center in Shanghai, China, begins operation
2003
 
Awareness campaign launched for users of counterfeit products
2004
January
Supply of spare parts for IMVs begins (marking full-scale start of supplying multi-sourced parts)
2005
June
Customer Service Operations Group established
2007
February
Shift to TMAP distribution of Japan-sourced parts
2008
April
Toyota Parts Center Asia Pacific (TPCAP) begins operation
October
TMMR (Russia) completes warehouse
 
Safety initiative launched at overseas parts warehouses
2010
September
Parts center in western India begins operation
Year
Month
Events
1972
January
Inventory analysis system for local parts developed
1974
May
Supply system for new vehicle parts introduced
1975
April
Parts catalogs microfiched
July
Spare parts distribution system introduced in Germany (standardized in March 1979, and introduced in other countries thereafter)
1979
May
Electronic transmission of orders using GE Mark III computer system begins
1980
June
Processing system for urgent, air-shipped orders introduced
1984
September
European parts catalog offered in multiple languages (multilingual publishing begins)
1991
January
Spare parts logistics management system introduced
1995
 
First global accessories catalog published
 
Parts system for small- and medium-sized distributors introduced
1999
January
Parts communication system for distributors introduced
2003
July
Internal support system for parts operations introduced
2006
April
Development of global spare parts system begins
May
Operation of new spare parts logistics management system commenced
2011
May
Introduction of global spare parts system begins with Australia

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