AutoRevista has presented the video of its 9th Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Conference with the title “Resilience and flexibility in the face of the perfect storm”, organized on November 24 at the Meliá Serrano Hotel in Madrid. The event was sponsored by EasyFairs, the organizing entity of Advanced Manufacturing Madrid (November 15 and 16, 2023) and MetalBarcelona and Robomática Barcelona (September 13 and 14).
The panel of speakers was made up of José María Sánchez, purchasing manager of the Teknia Group; Josep Nadal, Cluster Manager of the Automotive Cluster of Catalonia (CIAC), Jesús Otero, CEO of Europa Groupy, Beatriz García, Head of Connectivity Purchasing, HV-Battery & Powertrain of SEAT.
The last two years have raised the tension in the management of purchases of products and services as well as the supply chain to extremes unknown until now. The pandemic, the semiconductor crisis, the shortage of certain raw materials, rising energy costs and the war in Ukraine have created a perfect storm.
Among the topics to be discussed were
- Rethinking the just in time model: The chains are highly optimized, but can they be reinforced to mitigate stops
- New options for relocation and approximation of supplies
- Responses to volume variability, taking into account the evolution of new electric and electrified models
- Alternative raw materials both in products and in new markets to explore
- Digitalization of purchasing: software to address disruptions in the supply chain.