Workshop A - 30th of September 2005

”Being part of the supply chain” - how to actively design and manage logistics between your suppliers’ production and your clients’ assembly lines. With increasing integration of the supply chains, OEMs tend to push more and more (logistics) functionalities towards suppliers. In this process, it is of vital importance to every supplier to maintain full transparency on scope and cost of all logistics processes and to have suitable tools to react quickly to any new developments, otherwise supply chain collaboration may quickly change to domination by the OEM.

Objective of the workshop is to show a systematic method to identify, measure and calculate performance and cost of logistics and give indications for setting targets and improvements. A practical case study and calculation model can be easily adapted to individual requirements. Finally a concrete example of a JIS supply concept from BMW will provide insight to an OEM’s logistics requirement.

Peter Zeilinger, former BMW Logistics manager with 25 years of experience, now lecturer at the university of applied sciences in Saarbrücken and at the Institut for Production and Logistics. (Germany)
Prof. Dr. Klaus-J. Schmidt, AKJ Automotive, Saarbrücken (Germany) and others from the AKJ

Agenda and main Topics