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Supply Chain Management – Honda (Automobile – Cars)Supply Chain Management – Automobile (Cars)IntroductionGlobal supply chain practices and their effects have received considerable attention over the last two decades. In the recent past, the need for integration across supply chains has been identified as a key for effective and efficient operations of supply chains. This is observed with the increasing trend of collaborative partnerships among supply chain partners. This paper presents an integrated approach for manufacturing and distribution networks within the supply chain system of a global car company. The paper shows that the integration of manufacturing and distribution networks creates the environment for effective planning of many components and execution/follow-up of those plans. These components include materials, resources, operations/activities, suppliers and customers. The main features of the integration include component integration at individual networks via use of a central warehouse. This integration reduces various interfacing steps between partners and enables representations of relationships (component precedence, parent-component and component-component).Supply chain management links all the supply interacting organizations in an integrated two way communication system to manage high quality inventory in the most effective and efficient manner so as to provide value to the consumers. Supply chain management is