Our Suppliers

Most of the parts in our Toyota's North-American vehicles come from suppliers in North America.

Parts and materials for our Kentucky-built Camrys and Avalons flow into Georgetown from some 33 states. We rely on 92 suppliers from our home state of Kentucky alone, and hundreds of others scattered across the continental United States.

To help our suppliers, Toyota created the Toyota Supplier Support Center, based at our North American headquarters in Erlanger, Kentucky. TSSC was developed as a consulting branch to share knowledge about the Toyota production system with companies who want to effectively link production activity to sales in the marketplace.

The domestic content of Georgetown-built vehicles continues to grow. More than 75 percent of the parts used in vehicles at TMMK are produced by U.S. Suppliers. 100 percent of the steel comes from North American sources.

TSSC became part of Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America in 1996. It provides guidance to manufacturers who seek to raise productivity and improve product quality via the Toyota Production System. To date, many companies that have worked with the Supplier Support Center have demonstrated the long-term effectiveness of the Toyota Production System in a wide variety of settings.