Lijian: Hope to Jointly Develop Components with Chinese Enterprises
By ChinaFastener Magazine , 2010-10-12 12:00:00
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Li jian, director of Fiat global purchasing center in China: At present, auto parts global sourcing showed the following characteristics: Suppliers build production bases and synchronous develop with vehicle plants. meanwhile, China also gradually become a focus of global sourcing area. At the fourth China International Auto Parts expo, we can find many parts enterprises have become an important component of many automobile companies’ global purchase.
With the changes in the past are now foreign automobile enterprises’ purchase in China is not only for Chinese enterprises’ cost advantage but also for the higher requirements. For example, the requirements of parts suppliers’ capabilities design and development.
In the past, many Chinese suppliers according to the drawings of vehicle plant provides simple processing, but under the current market conditions, this practice is impracticable. Vehicle plants should cooperate with Chinese parts enterprises to jointly design, research and develop, so as to integrate with the European and American markets demands. At present, some large parts enterprises in China already has the ability, but there are still many parts enterprises are not good at developing new products and they need to continue to work hard.
At present, Fiat auto - body localization rate of parts in China is not very high, but with the development of the joint venture, Fiat will increasingly select parts enterprises in China and develop with them.