Forging new partnerships
How OEMs suppliers and LSPs will raise quality, speed and efficiency
Demand continues to increase in the country’s home market and as OEMs simultaneously look to grow their exports, they face the supply chain challenges of raising production while working towards meeting global quality standards.
The balance of responsibility for logistics and supply chain operations is constantly shifting and finding the right balance of OEM and LSP-led management to meet the demands of this challenging region is a major concern to all the players in the market. In a recent interview with Automotive Logistics magazine, Kalpesh Pathak, the assistant vice president of corporate supply chain for Fiat India Automobiles, said that while local Indian logistics providers were generally still ahead of foreign players concerning domestic logistics, the foreign players have been catching up and increasing competition.
“Focus is required in the areas of packaging improvements, standardisation across suppliers and OEMs, hassle-free movement of goods across the country, efficient methods of tax recovery … and improving the skill and knowledge level of the logistics industry professionals,” said Pathak.
All of these requirements and more are relevant to the theme of Automotive Logisics India 2010, which will be getting the right partnership between OEMs and logistics vendors in inbound and outbound transport with the goal of achieving world-class quality.
The conference will bring together domestic, transplant and joint venture OEMs, and the principal tier suppliers, with both Indian as well as global logistic providers adding their expertise to the forum. Attendance is at the vice president, logistics professional level, and will be from within India and other key automotive production regions.
Insights like these are just part of the value of being at the 4th Automotive Logistics India conference.
Overall, delegates will benefit from:
- The presence of the most senior OEM executives responsible for logistics and supply chain operations
- Expert speakers from OEMs, tier suppliers and logistics service providers
- International expertise from global supply chain professionals
Networking and contacts which are unrivalled across India's automotive logistics sector
2009 Attendees
India's automotive market is growing - and changing. As well as being the world centre for small cars, the industry is responding confidently to the attention and investment from global OEMs, by enhancing innovation and modernisation among its domestic OEMs.
Logistics continues to face the challenges of fragmented LSPs, poor infrastructure and deadening government bureaucracy. But it is also responding to the challenges of growth with new professionalism and some surprising innovation.
The government has just announced plans for an $11 billion fund to upgrade ports roads and bridges. And no less than $ 1 trillion is to be spent on infrastructure over five years from 2012.
Meanwhile OEMs are seeing a new urgency in government action. "The speed with which the government of Tamil Nadu state worked to facilitate the setting up of our manufacturing facility has been quite remarkable,” Renault India spokesman Ashish Sinharoy told Automotive Logistics News in May. Renault Nissan had just two months before opened a new facility in Chennai.
"Many of the promises made to us and the industry, such as good access roads from our manufacturing facility to ports and to the city, are already in place or are in the process of being completed,” he added.
Insights like these are just part of the value of being at the 4th Automotive Logistics India conference. Overall, delegates will benefit from:
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The presence of the most senior OEM executives responsible for logistics
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Expert speakers from OEMs, tier suppliers and logistics service providers
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International expertise from global supply chain professionals
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Networking and contacts which are unrivalled across India's automotive logistics sector
Read full report of 2009 conference
A report of last year's event in Pune is shown below. Visit the Archive to see the information of previous years' conferences. And use the links at the top of this page to register to attend the most important meeting of automotive logistics executives in India this year.
Also in the same venue, earlier in the week, will be India's major conference for manufacturing and production systems and equipment for the automotive sector. See details at http://india.amsconferences.com