Our Group's procurement division develops the basic strategic concepts for all procurement activities. This is done in close collaboration with the brands - considering their specific features.
Customers are especially excited about future-setting and realizable innovations. Consequently, this aspect determines our competitiveness and that of our partners.
For this reason we want to continue to integrate you in our innovation process. For this purpose our brands have established individual innovation marketing processes.
Our goal: Pinpoint new opportunities early in the game that provide us with strategic development and research fields as well as with new technologies. Our cooperation enables us to achieve further success and to minimize development risk for us and our suppliers.
Competitive advantage is our goal. Highest standards of quality are essential for this aim- this should also be a benchmark for our suppliers.
We provide our suppliers experts who can support them to fulfill our high standards. Contact persons are quality specialists of the brands.
During the cooperation we integrate our suppliers in our simultaneous engineering process at an early stage to ensure transparent costs aligned to target costs. It is in our interest to realize these costs.
We always expect from our suppliers to offer competitive prices that comes up worldwide with our standard "best-in-class". This subject is solved through teamwork and competence.
Our identical parts strategy offers you excellent perspectives within the Volkswagen Group across several platforms.
Accordingly you will deliver several brands of the Volkswagen Group to plant locations worldwide. This means that your growth opportunities increase enormously.
We consistently bundle volume and part families across brands. In turn, we reach highest synergies in the scope of our multi - brand strategy.