U² Unternehmensberatung & Umsetzungsunterstützung GmbH

• Company
• Consulting
  • LEAN Production
    • 5S
    • CIP Production
    • Layout Planning
    • Shopfloor Management
    • VSA^plus Production
    • Time Management^plus
  • LEAN Machine & Plant
    • EOP^plus
    • SMED
    • TPM
  • LEAN Controlling & Logistic
    • Kanban
    • Storage Management
    • Supermarket / Warehousing
    • Internal Transport Management
    • External Transport Management
  • LEAN Quality
    • Six Sigma
    • FMEA
  • LEAN Administration
    • 5S
    • CIP Administration
    • VSA^plus Administration
  • LEAN Purchasing
    • Purchasing Excellence
    • Analysis of Buy Part Prices
    • Supplier Cooperation Projects
  • LEAN Development
    • VSA^plus Development
  • LEAN Product
    • Value Analysis^plus
  • LEAN Project Management
    • PMT^plus
  • LEAN Energy & Resources
    • VSA^plus Energy & Resources
  • LEAN Potential Analysis
    • QuickCheck^plus
  • Interim Management
• Competence

Supplier Cooperation Projects

In a jointly cooperation with the supplier we optimize processes, quality and delivery service and identify saving potentials. The usage of CIP/KAIZEN, analysis of buy part prices and value analysis^plus at the same time strongly supports short term savings, which exceed the potential of conventional cooperation of customer-supplier relationships.

Contents/Structure

• Build up of customer specific documents, project organization and reporting structure and rules
• Theoretical and practical training of all participants by using examples from the reality. Explanation of the methodology and the way to realize the project: Target group:
  • Internally: employees from purchasing, design and development, production and assembly
  • Externally: strategic suppliers with significant turnover and value added (in logistics, production and/or assembly)
• Identification of suitable suppliers
• Kick-off at supplier to introduce the project and to check his willingness to participate within the project
• In the preparation phase the definition of the part spectrum, the lay down of the base line (basis calculation and reference numbers) and agreements concerning the provision of resources by the supplier for the core phase take place
• The development of optimization measures by using the three tools (CIP/KAIZEN, Analysis of buy part prices and value analysis^plus) takes place in the core phase
• The finalizing phase continues until the finish of all activities and includes the controlling of the savings

Which additional values will you receive?

Professional supplier cooperation projects have been conducted by a large part of the U² team that has been recruited from the automotive industry who is a pioneer in this area. Using the right project tools and working with the required sensitiveness is here highly important. Especially sensitive are the data of the customer and the supplier. U² safeguards professionally the role of a neutral mediator without loosing the focus on the goals.