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A 5 page paper discussing Ford history and supply chain issues to arrive at present day concerns for sustainable development. The purpose here is to discover how a local Ford Motor Company factory to consider working with its supply chain to enhance the benefits of sustainable development, and what the parent company can do to assist in achieving that goal. Sustainability is addressed from the perspective of the company, rather than from any specific society. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSfordSusDev.rtf
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by accident that Ford hit on the notion of "Quality is Job 1," but that companys implementation of quality initiatives and its insistence that its suppliers pass rigid quality examinations
certainly was no accident. By the mid 1980s, any supplier hoping to do business with Ford on a regular basis was required to demonstrate its own high quality standards.
The purpose here is to discover how a local Ford Motor Company factory to consider working with its supply chain to enhance the
benefits of sustainable development, and what the parent company can do to assist in achieving that goal. The Early Years
Henry Ford had spent some time perfecting his approach to the internal combustion engine in his Michigan garage. After a long time of trial
and error, he filed incorporation papers for Ford Motor Company on June 17, 1903 (The Ford Story). With 11 associates but only $28,000 in cash, the future of the
company was far from assured in the beginning. Ford products did indeed become the staple of the American car-buying public. There were
many competitors in the market in the 1920s, and then again in the 1940s following the Great Depression and World War II. Ford had remained an innovator, and the
dawn of the 1950s ushered in a time of experimentation frequently accompanied by failure. McElroy (1985) wrote 15 years ago that it was
around 1981 that the shift toward quality was visible at Ford. "The company has switched to a manufacturing philosophy that completely contradicts the way its done business for the
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