Siemens VDO Efficiently Collaborates with Suppliers

Challenge:
Manage logistic complexity together with suppliers (numerous projects, variants, components)
Identification of capacity shortages

Solution:
Combined solution: Vendor Managed Inventory and Monitoring.

Benefits:
Higher responsiveness and flexibility
Efficient collaboration with suppliers to detect possible shortages (on a short-term horizon with 2nd-tier, on a mid-term horizon across the whole supply chain)
Optimization of supply process between 2nd-tier and 3rd-tier through Vendor Managed Inventory