Destroying Boundaries: Integration and Collaboration in the Automotive Value Chain

摘要

Automotive suppliers today face major challenges in supporting their customers including: Organizing their resources to support them on a global basis; delivering innovation, quality, and value with increasing speed; and operating profitably in the face of continuous competitive pressures to reduce costs. Suppliers to survive and prosper must integrate their internal processes (combining or unifying their internal business processes across functions, activities, and units) and effectively collaborate with both their customers and their suppliers (coordinating their business processes with external customers and suppliers). The University of Michigan's Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation (OAST), and Oracle Corporation, with the cooperation of the Original Equipment Suppliers Association (OESA), collaborated on this important topic to identify: The general value of these efforts, and their specific value to certain company activities; The progress different types of suppliers are making in developing these efforts; Actual examples of integration and collaboration efforts in executive decision-making (EDM), product design and development (PDD), and supply chain management (SCM); Current barriers and facilitators to successful implementation of these efforts; and A vision of the future, more fully integrated and collaborative value chain.