CINCINNATI, Nov. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Hundreds of
Tier I suppliers occupy the trade show floor at Toyota's
Opportunity Exchange each year looking to make connections
with women and minority-owned businesses. One of those is
Multi-Training Systems of Southfield,
Mich.
"I've been attending Opportunity Exchange for more than
10 years," said Donna Charles,
Multi-Training Systems sales and marketing manager. "We're doing
working with 10 or 15 different suppliers as a result of this
event."
Charles added that doing business with Toyota Tier I and other
Tier II suppliers has led to innovation within her company. "Each
year that I come here I get something different out of it. What has
been very meaningful to me is working with the groups in terms of
utilizing technology to promote my business. At last year's event,
the organizers released a great app that we could use on the trade
show floor. So I started to think about how I could use apps in our
training programs and to promote my business."
That innovation was on display Monday and Tuesday, November 14 - 15, at the 27th
Annual Toyota Opportunity Exchange in Covington, Ky. There, potential and existing
Tier II suppliers learn that the best way to generate business with
a Toyota Tier I is to provide a product of equal or greater quality
at a reduced cost.
"The goal of Opportunity Exchange is to connect diverse
companies with Toyota's Tier I suppliers. By strengthening critical
skills, business insight, and networking, our goal is to turn
today's connections into tomorrow's relationships," said
Robert Young, Toyota group vice
president of purchasing, supplier engineering development and cost
planning.
Toyota has hosted Opportunity Exchange for 27 years inviting
hundreds of diverse businesses to cultivate and strengthen
relationships with Tier I suppliers at the free two-day event. The
event began in 1989 with 300 attendees and has grown to nearly
2,000, generating hundreds of millions in contracts for diverse
suppliers. The event includes the trade show, as well as workshops
and panel discussions that focus on how diverse suppliers can turn
relationships into opportunities.
For more information, visit ToyotaOpportunityExchange.com.
About Toyota
Toyota (NYSE:TM), the world's top
automaker and creator of the Prius and the Mirai fuel cell vehicle,
is committed to advancing mobility through our Toyota and
Lexus brands. Over the past 50 years, we've produced more
than 30 million cars and trucks in North
America, where we operate 14 manufacturing plants (10 in the
U.S.) and directly employ more than 44,000 people (more than 34,000
in the U.S.). Our 1,800 North American dealerships (1,500 in
the U.S.) sold more than 2.8 million cars and trucks (nearly 2.5
million in the U.S.) in 2015 – and about 80 percent of all Toyota
vehicles sold over the past 20 years are still on the road
today.
Toyota partners with community, civic, academic, and
governmental organizations to address our society's most pressing
mobility challenges. We share company resources and extensive
know-how to support non-profits to help expand their ability to
assist more people move more places. For more information about
Toyota, visit www.toyotanewsroom.com.
Contact:
Mike
Triebsch (502) 693-5975
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