Volkswagen Launches Quality Initiative with Suppliers
Wolfsburg, Germany - The Volkswagen Group continues to pursue its strategy of intensifying cooperation with suppliers, and has now successfully launched the Suppliers’ Quality Forum, a further initiative concerning cooperation with suppliers. The strategy consists of three components: the Suppliers’ Conventions, the Suppliers’ Quality Forum and the Innovation Forum.
The Suppliers’ Convention, the first initiative, focused on material cost and already achieved triple-digit million savings in October of last year.
The second component, the Suppliers’ Quality Forum, was initiated by Francisco Javier Garcia Sanz, Member of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG, and Falko Schling, Director of Volkswagen Group Quality Assurance. At the Forum, 24 selected suppliers joined up with top management to form 24 teams together with cross-departmental expert groups from Volkswagen. “We will be handling quality issues with the same openness we give to cost issues in the Suppliers’ Conventions,” emphasized Garcia Sanz: “We are aiming for an open and forward-looking dialog to develop solutions for improvements.”