Webasto Supplier Day held successfully

Carefully selected and arranged by Gasgoo International, the world's leading auto parts supplier, Webasto, had a match-making event with more than 20 outstanding suppliers from all over the country on January 22.

Webasto Executive Vice President Purchasing Mr. Jan Henning Mehlfeldt attended the event and gave a speech.He said that China market is changing rapidly, and there is a lot of unpredictability too; the current car sales is considerable, but there are also some unpredictable development.Webasto continues to adapt to the new requirements. The glory of the past doesn't mean a successful future, Webasto hopes to introduce more suppliers with good R&D as well as independent design and innovation capability, thus constantly updating the existing supplier system. Furthermore, Mr. Jan Henning Mehlfeldt pointed that Webasto has more than 1000 suppliers globally at present, and the company is streamlining the supplier system and plans to reduce to 300 high-quality suppliersin the next 5-10 years for more in-depth cooperation so as to optimize the existing supply chain system, of course ,this can be a long-term job.It is expected that in the next 5-10 years, Webasto will have more in-depth cooperation with the core suppliers.

Webasto Executive Vice President Purchasing Mr. Jan Henning Mehlfeldt‘s speech

When talking about the difference between China auto suppliers and European and American suppliers, Mr. Mehlfeldt said: "we don't care about the suppliers’ origin and background, instead, we focus mainly on the quality, price and service. We concern that whether the suppliers can provide synchronization solution. Webasto welcome suppliers with high-quality, and hope to establish a long-term partnership with our good suppliers.Also we hope that our suppliers can participate in the early phase of parts development and even of the components design as well as raw materials design to provide our R & D with good ideas and suggestions, so as to create a good atmosphere to make our products better, and help us to maintain a leading position in the industry. Inthis special occasion, I ‘d also like to express many thanks toGasgoo for providing such a good platform for us."

Gasgoo President Tina Zhou and Jan Henning Mehlfeldthadin-depth communications

It is understood that the products in this special match-making event of Webasto cover a number of components of automotive sunroof, including glass,plastic products, metal products, as well as raw materials. "To secure our high quality standards worldwide our procurement management is relatively “complex”.We mainly focus on the direct tier 2 suppliers, but also strengthen the cooperation with the tier 3 suppliers and raw material suppliers. We hope that our tier2 suppliers are capable enough to manage and control the tier3and raw material suppliers, so that our supply chain can be under a good control of management."

In order to let the suppliers learn more about Webasto, Gasgoo arranged a special share meeting before separate negotiations. WRS CN Purchasing DirectorElton Jianggave detailed introduction of Webasto’s purchasing strategy in view of automotive roof corresponding components such as plastic parts, glass, ECU platform. Also Elton Jiang carefully answered the suppliers’ questions. And in separate communications, Webasto commodity buyers had deep negotiations with each supplier attending the event according to different products.

WRS CN Purchasing Director Elton Jiang gave introduction of Webasto’s purchasing strategy

"We have attended the match-making event arranged by Gasgoo for many times and we really feel Gasgoo is more and more professional, the service is becoming better and better. We hope Gsagoocan create a better platform and provided more opportunities for us." A supplier representative said in the interview.

In this regard, Gasgoo President Tina Zhou said: "Having been providing service in autosupply chain for many years, when facing the new development trend of auto industry, Gasgoo also continually adjust our business and strategies, combining with the actual market demands, so as to develop more new models and services to help Chinese suppliers go out and become internationalization, to promote the overall capacity of China's automotive supply chain."

Photos: Webasto Supplier Day