What Are the Causes and Consequences of Bmw’s Quality Problems with Newly Launched Products

significant improvements in the product line. BMW wanted to position itself as the "best" rather

Toyota faced a challenge related to the poor visibility and low quality of a supplier for the Suprima model. The Japanese brand, being related to a top quality product and a Just in Time manufacturing scheme could not afford to have stock out problems nor not meeting consumers’ demand for quality.

Founded in 1917, the BMW Group is now one of the ten largest car manufacturers in the world and, with its BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce brands, possesses three of the strongest premium brands in the car industry. The group also has a strong market position in the motorcycle sector and operates a successful financial services business.

Just like the other industries such as apparel, electronics, and consumer goods, the automobile industry has accelerated its foreign direct investment, cross border trade and global production. The automobile industry has increased outsourcing and bundled value chain activities in major supplier chains. As a result, more developed countries that serve as suppliers have increased their involvement in trade and FDI. With these increased supplier capabilities, large national suppliers have become global suppliers and are now controlling multinational operations. This is because of their increased capability of providing good and services to various lead firms all over the world. The automotive industry has a distinct firm structure. This

Nissan is systematically working on different techniques to improve quality feel and brand perception by considering five senses. It is understanding customer sensitivity through scrupulous researches by assessing that what attracts customers and what they want, delivering high quality and advanced vehicles than competitors by forecasting future trends and technological advancements (Nissan Motor Corporation, 2015).

What are the causes and consequences of BMW’s quality problems with newly launched products? What should be done to improve “launch quality”?

Continuous development and responsiveness of suppliers at the early age of product development process is critically important. “Honda tries to encourage suppliers’ suggestions early before finalizing drawings, particularly in the area of cost reduction and quality improvement.”

Specific Purpose: To inform my audience of the excellence achieved by BMW over the coarse of the past 85 years.

Total quality management focuses on several aspects such as Continuous improvement and the Customers to improve the quality of the products. Ford Company has in place a strong set of values, norms, and artifacts which it strongly enforces. The mission statement for the company is based on a simple phrase, “One Ford: One team, one plan, one goal.” The company vision is, “To become the world’s leading consumer company for automotive products and services.” (Haas-kotzegger, Schlegelmilch, & Ambos, 2013) Both these company philosophies give the company a good favor towards the consumers.

Introduction - Total quality management (TQM) has been defined as ‘continuous improvement of every production output whether it be a product or a service, by removing inefficient variations and by improving the backbone of the work process’. International managers like their domestic counterparts have found that incorporating the notion of total quality management into their management process and style can give the competitive advantage.

The main business problem that BMW is facing is reducing its long product development time. BMW's current design process began

In phase 2, the company faced the challenged of sustaining the hype around its new car and ensuring that potential customers actually purchase the Z3 when it is available. After reviewing the advantages and disadvantages of both marketing methods (traditional and non-traditional) and considering the success of phase 1, it is recommended for BMW to continues use the non-traditional approach and use minimum traditional strategies.

This work is done to study the improvement of the quality in automobile industry. This chapter consists three sections named as “Problem definition”, “Objectives” and “Methodology of the study” respectively. The section 3.1 named as “Problem definition” describes the challenge or difficulty that is to be solved. The solution may be achieved after fulfilling the objective by using some sub-objectives that are described in section 3.2 named as “Objectives”. The methodology described in section 3.3 in details. This methodology has been devised keeping in mind the view of “Problem definition” and the “Objectives” that are suggested for the fulfilment of the solution for the problem.

BMW must take action to compete with the Japanese auto companies by putting great emphasis on quality service at a reasonable price to gain the competitive

The market introduction project of a new product is as important as its design project. When a company is budgeting for a new product project, it is fundamental to include the marketing expenses in the initial budget, thus, the company will not have future surprises. Dr. Levoy, in his article, The difference between efficiency and effectiveness, he explains that it may be a waste of time if a company has an entirely efficient manufacturing process, however, at the end is not effective, or does not achieve its objective, such as bringing more clients or selling a new product, (Levoy, B., 2011). This is the importance of a marketing project, the marketing professionals can sell ideas, products, services, anything that is marketable, and if a company is launching a product I believe that the goal is to reach the customers. Therefore, to understand well our plan for Fiat Chrysler and the launching of the new Jeep Wrangler Pickup Truck, we design the following schema to explain the plan details: 1. A fast explanation of the actual market and some challenges; 2. Explanation of the nature of the new product to be launched and its industry; 3. The marketing project to introduce the new product to the customers; 4. Explanation of how we will use the Total Quality Management - TQM tools to measure and control the marketing plan execution; 5. How FCA already applies TQM philosophy to achieve client satisfaction and how we can expand the use of TQM