and develop a global strategy , as well as make key decisions surrounding the company ’ s global sourcing .

“ Each global category manager has a global category buyer located in the regions where we are ,” explains Naux . “ For example , a global category manager will have a casting buyer

“ The backbone of the strategy has been a review of the systems across all of our plants ,” he comments . “ That includes sales and operations planning , master production schedules , execution and control and how we implement those to global standards across all of our sites

located in the

Americas , in Asia-Pacific , in India and in Europe , and he will be driving all the decisions , set up a strategy and

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES AT CHASSIS BRAKES INTERNATIONAL

in order to ensure consistency across the entire supply chain . I have personally spent at least a week at each of our 13 plants with one team member to evaluate

then they will organise a sourcing strategy and various sourcing decisions .”

current status and define the action plan to close the gap with our best-in-class

model previously defined . This

Organisation Since the beginning of 2016 , the company has spent considerable

transformation is ongoing and we can already see it benefitting the business every single day .”

time and effort implementing a

new global supply chain strategy made up of 28 separate initiatives , according to Chassis Brakes International ’ s Global Supply Chain Director , Wilfried Hermine .

Integration With an annual spend of £ 500mn in direct purchasing and £ 100mn in indirect purchasing , Chassis Brakes International ’ s global operations