Supplier Integration

The complete automotive industry, starting with the vehicle manufacturers to the system suppliers and down through to the component and material suppliers, is characterised by profound and high-frequency innovations which cause sustainable changes at the product and process level.

To do justice to this innovation challenge of the vehicle manufacturers, aside from the production the adjacent areas of the value-added chain must also be integrated by the system supplier.

Primarily the conception and development of system solutions up to maturity for series production as well as the assembly and logistics up to the installation point at the vehicle manufacturer build up new main activities as services, on which ThyssenKrupp Automotive Systems focuses in a network with other ThyssenKrupp companies and external suppliers. Only a reasonable concentration on our core competencies as well as the sustainable integration of external competencies can produce customer oriented and integral system solutions in total. As a result of these realisations and against the background of an increasing globalisation of the markets or internationalisation of the vehicle manufacturers, worldwide development and production networks for the "JIT/JIS" system development and supplying arose, whose coordination and implementation in respect to contents put highest requirements on the competence and the capabilities of the companies involved.

For ThyssenKrupp Automotive Systems as a system partner of the vehicle manufacturers, the systematic management of these development and production networks with the aim of minimal costs, short development and delivery times as well as a high development and logistics quality is one of the main tasks, which can only be handled on the basis of extensive experience from numerous development projects and production sites built up worldwide.