FORD prepares with its suppliers a plan that co-finances the EU to reduce logistics costs
Publication date:
01/31/2003
Published in:
J.L.Z., Valencia
Ford Spain, DMR Consulting (Fujitsu group) and the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) will conclude next summer the project to improve the supply chain of the automobile company and its suppliers with a view to achieving significant savings – not yet quantified – in logistics costs and improve services with its clients. The initiative, known as “V-Chain” and in which large firms in the vehicle manufacturer’s auxiliary sector also participate, has a budget of 4.7 million euros and is 50% co-financed by the European Commission through of the Growth program.
The coordinators of the program, Roque Alonso (Ford manager), Marc Hawa (DMR Consulting) and Ángel Ortiz (from the UPV), who assure that it could be extended to other European plants and auxiliary companies – in search of flexibility and cost cutting -, they guarantee that the integrated management of work processes and the application of information technologies will increase the competitiveness of the factory.
The Exel Logistics firm participates as a logistics operator, and Ford’s supplier companies Dynamit Nobel, Johnson Controls and Grupo Francisco Segura are also integrated, as well as Vitria (solutions provider). Ford aims to achieve the “collaborative supply chain.”
