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porsche logistics.qxd 24/11/06 11:30 am Page 56 employs the Schnellecke Group as a third party provider. which of them got the biggest slice of the cake, he smiles. Why only in Leipzig? Because the plant infrastructure is Two -and-a-half years ago we discussed with them ver y different from Zuffenhausen, explains Wels. In whether it would be a useful development to bring them Leipzig we had the opportunity to plan and implement a closer together. Now, our different forwarders work completely new factory and layout on a greenfield site. We constantly together to plan the optimum consolidations had to hire a lot of new people and to train and develop and material flows into our plants. It is a very strong basis them in our production and logistics concepts. It is easier for lower cost transportation with high performance. It to start from scratch than to modify an existing operation, also allows us to be very flexible in an ever-changing and so it was possible to bring in a logistics provider from market. If we have changes in the volumes of material flow the very beginning of the project. This way, the logistics and find, for instance, that we need more components provider has the chance to from the north of Germany develop in the same way as rather than the south, the the rest of the workforce, and forwarders work together to with the same company optimise the new routes and ethos. pick-ups. Today, the areas for The Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen which a forwarder is facility was opened in 1950 responsible are not fixed, but and, because of its size and fluid. We now measure them physical restrictions, demands on the basis of common quite sophisticated logistics per formance, not only on solutions. We have a very individual performance. close working relationship Porsche has been working between logistics people and closely with long-term partner manufacturing people which Deutsche Bahn on a project to has grown up over the years, shift the transportation of says Wels. Although we use engines and components from s e ve r a l functions from road to rail. From June, lean stands for the best solution for companies outside, such as deliveries to Valmet in Finland a specific situation external transportation and have been effected by rail, J

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of AutoMOTIVE 5

Editors Note
News
Here For The Long Haul
Halewood. Rebirth of a Car Plant
Safety First
Focus on Flexibility
A Prophet Without Honour?
Chrysler Cuts It Four Ways
A MINI For All Reasons
Porsche Plans Continuous Logistics Improvement
Flawless, Consistent Execution
Ford's European Supplier Parks Deliver Lean Manufacturing Efficiencies
Cheap and Cheerful
Onwards and Upwards
Schrader and Siemens Electronics Assembly Systems Take the Pressure
No Faults Forward
A Long Way From Wheelbarrows and Bath Tubs
A New Era in US/Japanese Cooperation
A Dialogue of the Deaf

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