Supply Chain Management in der Automobilindustrie

Supply chain management is gaining immense importance worldwide in business management science and practice. The trend is that fewer and fewer individual companies, but rather complete supply chains will be in competition. Due to the decreasing vertical integration of end product manufacturers (OEMs), in a few years only a few mega-suppliers will control the supply chains as equal partners with the OEMs. Continuing the Japanese Lean management thought, at the same time the meaning of the procurement concept Modular/System Sourcing, with which complex function groups are procured highly aggregated, increases in importance. Based on empirical investigations in the automobile and - supply industry the author Oliver Hülsmann lights up current procurement strategies, with the focus on Modular/System Sourcing. Optimization potentials lie ins.