FORD Almussafes brings together suppliers and logistics in a virtual company to reduce supply costs
Publication date:
01/31/2003
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It is financed by the EU and will allow us to know in real time the external and internal operations
A.M.V.
VALENCIA- Ford Almussafes will create a virtual company in which it will bring together suppliers and logistics operators with the aim of improving the supply chain in general and reducing costs and manufacturing and delivery cycles.
This project, which is part of a pilot program called V-Chain, is a pioneer both in Europe and in the rest of the world and will make it possible to have more reliable information on all internal and external operations in real time, “thus improving the “response to unexpected changes or events,” said yesterday the manager of Ford Spain, Roque Alonso, who assured that if the initiative obtains good results it will be implemented nationwide even before the end of the year.
The new virtual company, which has already come into operation, involves eleven companies – both SMEs and multinationals – from Spain, Italy, Germany, Great Britain and France, and has been designed jointly by the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Ford and DMR Consulting . The project has a budget of 4.7 million euros and is 50% subsidized by the European Commission. Of the total budget, approximately 3.1 million are to develop Ford’s virtual company.
In addition to Ford as manufacturer, DMR Consulting as general coordinator of the project and developer of solutions together with the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Exel Logistics as logistics operator, Dynamit Nobel, Johnson Controls and Grupo Francisco Segura as suppliers, and Vitria as suppliers, also participate in the project. solution provider.
