Training 2
PURCHASING IN AUTOMOTIVE & LOW COST COUNTRY SOURCING November 5-6, 2008
Your educator
françois lassalle is international purchasing consultant in the automobile sector. he works for car manufacturers and tiers 1 to help them to optimize their global purchasing strategies and works in particularly on low cost countries sourcing strategies.
Objectives:
this training will take you step by step through the automotive sourcing process and will help you take key decisions about what to source, where to source it from and how to make it happen.
You are concerned
• project buyers / purchasing manager,
• international sourcing manager- program purchasing manager,
• every person from car manufacturers, tiers 1 or tiers 2 who wants to have deeper knowledges regarding international purchasing in the automotive industry.
Training programme
PURCHASING IN AUTOMOTIVE
November 5, 2008
From company strategy to purchasing strategy
Market trends of the automotive industry
- a dynamic chain in permanent mutation
- production figures
- move of production sites
Reorganisation of roles between the different players in the chain
- mapping of the different players
- moving towards a specialisation
- structural evolution of the players up-stream
- slippage in the division of costs between the players
- costs under pressure
The vehicle manufacturer's strategy
- the different categories of VM's
- environment
- consequences for purchasing
Purchasing strategy
The purchasing department, a key interface
- mission
- structure the purchasing department
- set up a purchasing strategy
Customer/supplier relationships management
- the supplier at the heart of the proce
- supplier integration in the project
- transactions
- risk management
- sustainable development
- ethics
Supplier quality assurance
- about quality
- supplier quality
- key stages
- continuous improvement
Logistics
- an upstream vision to optimise costs
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LOW COST COUNTRIES SOURCING
November 6, 2008
Purchasing in low cost countries
Opportunities
- Mapping of LCC sourcing of automotive components/products
- Materials and labour costs by countries
- Purchasing risks in low cost countries
- Logistics and supply chain with suppliers in LCC
- Quality management
Launch your LCC sourcing project
- Component selection
- Risk management
- Identify the LCC suppliers
- Market information required to support a purchasing decision
- Estimate the objective price and the real cost
- From the production to the delivery
A few advises to be successful
- business
- good manner
Case Study
An example of a comparison for a purchase of a same product made in France and in a LCC country by a key player of the automotive industry is presented and commented.
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This training program will give you an overview of project management applied to new product and systems, with a focus on key success factors. It will show you how project management can benefi t of systems engineering methods, when applied to new products and systems development.
Training 3
PROJECT MANAGEMENT APPLIED TO NEW PRODUCTS & SYSTEMS
November 5-6, 2008
Your educator
Didier SPAIER is a trainer and a project management consultant. After a first career in the automotive industry as an organizer, a project manager and head of a projects architecture group, he has become a management consultant.
Objectives:
PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND SYSTEMS DESIGN: THE BASICS
November 5, 2008
PM and SE: key concepts and principles to grasp, how they fit
-Why we need good project management and systems engineering
-Project management: Anticipate risks, actions, needs and constraints of all stakeholders during all product life cycle, plan and manage activities, costs, schedules and organize teamwork
-Systems engineering: principles and reference & integration
in the project management
Methods and tools for PM and SE: an overview
- What for do we need methods and tools? Communicate and work together, anticipate, share information, model the system, plan, track progress
- Let’s share contacts, calendars, documents
- Let’s rely upon IT tools: e.g. wiki, CMS, project management software
- To model the system and interchange technical data: rely upon standards whenever acceptable. E.g. SysML, ISO 10303-233
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APPLICATION OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND SYSTEMS DESIGN THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT
November 6, 2008
Opportunity studies and the project statement : from idea to draft
-Who are the stakeholders? what are their expectations?
- Where are we, where do we want to go, how big is the gap?
- Draft of main requirements and constraints
Main stages of the project’s developement
- Feasibility studies and the concept stage
- Project planning and system defi nition
- The development stage: design and FAIT (fabrication, assembly,
intagration and test)
The project manager, a project leader
- Management applied to projects
- Team leader: manage, organize and communicate
Case Study
Some practical exercises are proposed to help fi gure out how
to implement PM & SE in your context
