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 process
- 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
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.
