V-LINE and SWCC conduct another continuous improvement workshop in Hanover Germany
Sehnde, Germany, 06/09/2006
V-LINE EUROPE GmbH announced today, after the close of a continuous improvement workshop with its major customer Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the reaching of a perfect match with the goals of both organizations to focus on specific key performance indicators to achieve further reductions in Total Procurement Cost.
In the 3-day workshop, Abdulaziz Al Mohammed and Mohammed Abdulkarim, SWCC's Manager for Prucurement and Manager for Planning and Support identified the hurdles for on-demand procurement and the related service requirements within the complete supply chain for “cross border” MRO parts supply and then together with a counterpart V-LINE Task Force identified detailed recommendations to improve existing handling and transactional processes.
“The main targets, fine tuning the contract business model and further exploring of best practices have been achieved ”said Detlev Daues the CEO and owner of V-LINE. “We believe the privatisation process in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as well as a relaxed budget will speed up the implementation of new models.”
Both companies agreed to
certain milestones in reaching the ultimate goal of streamlining processes to
cut the maximum time from the supply chain and therby realze lower inventory
with no risk for the end user.
About V-LINE
The V-LINE Group of Companies, headquartered in Sehnde near Hanover, Germany was founded In l979: to provide capital intensive industrial plants worldwide with a service aimed at reducing the total procurement cost of cross border (foreign-made) spare parts. Today, from two buying /warehousing / logistics operations in Japan and the United States, in addition to main operations and administrative hub in Germany, it serves a global customer base of large organizations on all continents. For further information, please visit the corporate website at: www.v-line.com or, contact by phone: country code + 5138/7008-0 (DE) 732/493-1400 (US) 66/675-3001(JP) 11 5180 2370 (BR) 10/649-92689 (CN) & 2222/ 536396 (MX)
About SWCC
SWCC is a Saudi Government Corporation responsible for desalinating seawater, in order to augment the supply of potable water to coastal and inland cities in the Kingdom. SWCC is also the second largest electric power producer in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Please visit the web site http://www.swcc.org.sa/
