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Mexican Border Automotive Suppliers

Since August 2020 AMBE has been working with US OEM‘s suppliers identifying and anticipating risks to our Customer’s Assembly Plants around the world by coordinating visits to their and assigned suppliers located in the Mexican border and initiating a mapping of their Logistics Process to define backlog orders and assuring that all processes needed were in place to mitigate the risks because of this conditions.

The Challenge

To identify Back logs orders by mapping each assigned supplier Logistics process and get the commitment of all parties involved in solving the issue by coordinating daily / weekly meetings in site and/or remote to obtain all information needed to anticipate risks to our Customer.
To keep our US OEM Customer informed of :
I. Back log orders by supplier and plants that might be in risk of interrupting their flow of vehicles.
II. Offenders that created the backlog orders of each supplier
III. Supplier’s Action Plans to correct the offenders and avoid repeating
IV. Assurance of a backlog orders proper recovery plans in place and daily attainment to it
V. Assure sustainability: Measure results with KPI’s
Ambe help to coordinate proper teams in each supplier to obtain answers and commitments developing recovery plans with proper information that will assure the flow of vehicles in our customer plants.

The Solution

Mapping each supplier actual situation and Logistics processes to define and propose ways to anticipate risk to our Customer by:
• Identifying Actual Back log orders in each supplier plant.
• Identify coverage of Finished Goods in each Customer Plant.
• Understand reasons and offenders of each supplier situation.
• Implement and assure follow up of backlog recovery plans.
• To put in place KPI to proper follow of each supplier performance.
• Assure the follow up of actions plans when not hitting targets.
• Coordinate proper way of shipping product to assure arrival before customer plants identified coverage.
• Follow up of Raw Material Shortages that impact the attainment to each supplier recovery plan.
• Keep Customer informed on daily basis performance of each supplier.

The Result

Customer Visibility

Before

Lack of information to Customer’s key departments such as Supplier Quality and Capacity assurance realizing risks of shutting plants down until last minute.

After

Ambe kept all Customer departments in the loop and flow of information with each assigned supplier anticipating risks and giving time to react.
KPI’s

Before

Lack of Key Performance Indicators to visualize supplier actual performance.

After

Ambe suggested and implemented KPI’s and charts showing attainment to actions given, performance and positive tendencies.
Supplier Commitment

Before

Lack of Backlog recovery plans from Suppliers

After

Ambe Implemented Backlog recovery plans by Supplier to each Customer Plant and assure the attainment to it.
Transparency

Before

Customer not able to determine transparency from supplier CONFIDENTIAL performance due to inability to be in site

After

Ambe created the environment and connection between Customer and Supplier to obtain desired results with transparency for both parties.
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