OREANDA-NEWS. October 8, 2009. The participants of the conference – the company’s partners from 33 Russian cities, as well as from Serbia and Hungary – were greeted by First Deputy Director General, CEO of KAMAZ Inc. Yury Klochkov. According to him, KAMAZ and its suppliers now work under absolutely different conditions – with a real market, the highest requirements to production and its quality. “And we want to receive from our suppliers components which meet all these requirements,” - noted CEO of KAMAZ.

“We changed a quality management structure and logistics of KAMAZ. We are improving a planning procedure, making it on the basis of SAP system, and a vehicle component base, – added Klochkov. – We will see the greatest results from our measures in 2011. We want the quality, logistics and planning systems at your enterprises to be analogous to those at KAMAZ. Then we all will be successful.”

KAMAZ suppliers discussed the quality of purchased components, metals and materials at the gathering. Director of Procurement and Logistics Department Rishat Kaviev in detail analyzed activities of the company and its partners in his report “Markets – Partnership – Purchases”.

A new technique of suppliers’ work evaluation and requirements of KAMAZ Inc., as well as KAMAZ suppliers’ measures to decrease costs were discussed at the conference. One of the subjects offered to the participants was the issue of logistics improvement. It was emphasized that continuous operation of a conveyor directly depends on the correct logistics organization.

Eight best suppliers were awarded at the conference. The participants of the meeting visited OOO KAMAZenergoremont and the automobile plant. Then round-table conferences were held at which much attention was given to the development issues of the KAMAZ Production System. Deputy CEO, Director of Quality Yevgeny Fedulov once again concentrated attention on the issues of quality: in the crisis situation they become topical.