Volkswagen Supplier Integration Team B2B User Agreement
As a user of the B2B provider platform, the designated company administrator is your company`s contact person for the Volkswagen Group, especially when it comes to existing or new applications on the B2B supplier platform. The administrator can also enable other users within the organization and delegate additional roles to them or grant them access to applications. You can select the existing registrar as the company administrator or allow someone else in your organization to take on this role. In addition to facilitating – both for you and for the Volkswagen Group companies with which you do business – the management of a large number of administrative tasks related to the business relationship, the supplier platform provides information and allows you, as a supplier and the relevant Volkswagen Group company, to exchange legally binding declarations and conclude contracts. Divided into teams of multilingual skills, each application and information service is competently and efficiently supported by areas such as purchasing, research and development, quality assurance and logistics. Along with signing the framework agreement, enter detailed information about your company into the supplier database – e.B additional contact persons, the scope of your company`s production, etc. The virtual enterprise as a new organizational paradigm has three basic characteristics: network reconfiguration dynamics, virtuality and external entities as environments that enable or support virtual enterprise integration, and reconfiguration dynamics. The field of knowledge on this subject is highly fragmented due to the transfer of knowledge between regions, developers and researchers. The Internet platform launched by Volkswagen in the summer of 2000 is operational. The most important components: online catalog purchasing, online negotiations (auctions), capacity management (eCap) were implemented for Audi and Volkswagen and introduced in the other brands and regions of the Group. On the new « VW Group Supply.com » portal, suppliers can find information on purchasing, logistics and quality standards for the eight brands and three regions of the Volkswagen Group. Around 5,500 suppliers have been using individual elements of the market for some time now. Since April 1999, Volkswagen has been sending enquiries and offer documents via the Internet via the Electronic Supplier Link (ESL) system.
Suppliers now have quick access to all components via the Group`s new standardised portal. 500,000 transactions took place this year at Volkswagen`s private B2B marketplace. Almost the entire supply volume of more than €50 billion for commercial vehicle brands Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Seat, Skoda, Volkswagen and Volkswagen will in future be managed by the « VW Supply.com Group ». Many applications, such as . B interactive negotiations via the Internet, are now part of the daily work of the buyer. Since the summer of 2000, more than 600 online negotiations have been conducted with more than 4,000 suppliers. Currently, 6,000 employees worldwide can order about 360,000 different items directly from 200 suppliers in the catalog`s purchasing area. With the help of the « eCap » capacity management system, suppliers and the Volkswagen Group can discuss requirements and capabilities. This reduces storage and transport costs for all parties involved.
« Our suppliers can, including through the use of eCap, plan for the longer term, react faster and communicate more clearly with us. This will allow both parties to increase their competitiveness, » said Francisco Javier Garcia Sanz, member of the board of directors responsible for the group`s purchasing. Suppliers can consult Volkswagen`s annual, monthly and weekly planning. By simplifying procurement procedures and optimizing logistics processes, processing times have been reduced by up to 95%. The investments made have already paid for themselves thanks to the savings on process, logistics and material costs – all much ahead of schedule. « E-business is first and foremost an activity, » explains Dr. Jens Neumann, Member of the Executive Board in charge of Legal Affairs, Treasury, Organization and Group Strategy, explaining the success of the project. « Our strategy of focusing on process improvement and using Internet technology as a support element has been successful. » « With its market, Volkswagen has not only reorganized its processes, but has also created the technical prerequisites for easy integration of the supplier industry. Everything indicates that we have taken the right path, » said Garcia Sanz. In the long term, Volkswagen plans to seamlessly link business processes and thus establish a fully integrated internal and external « Volkswagen E-Web », said Dr.
Jens Neumann about the next steps. Ultimately, all processes, from development to planning to production, are integrated, from the supplier to the dealer to the delivery of the vehicle, i.e. the customer. The supplier portal « VW Group Supply.com » has been set up with IBM, ARIBA, i2-Technologies, e-breviate, Hewlett Packard, the subsidiary of Volkswagen gedas and the consulting firm AT Kearney. The B2B supplier platform « VWGroupSupply.com » allows you to communicate quickly and efficiently with Volkswagen AG and the various companies of the Volkswagen Group and to establish business relations with the supplier. The company administrator is responsible for managing your company`s users and rights. At this point, the registrar can decide if they are taking over the administration or if they want to appoint another person from your business. To complete the registration, appoint a company administrator. The main task of the company administrator is to manage the company data in the supplier database and to manage the company`s users in the UMS (User Management System). Information for employees of suppliers and partner companies (exclusive to the GDPR) Print the B2B user agreement, fill in your company`s data and attach the signature of your company`s legal representative.
Return the signed agreement to VW by post to the address indicated within six weeks: The SIT consists of an international team that assists you in the daily handling of the ONE. Group business platform. PHONE: +495361933099E-MAIL: b2bteam@vwgroupsupply.com You become an authorized user of our ONE. Group business platform through a multi-step registration process. As a user, you have access to the applications and information services that are enabled for you. The registration process consists of 6 steps that you must follow as a potential partner of the Volkswagen Group. The basis of the registration is the D-U-N-S number, which is used as a unique® key. Log in to the www.vwgroupsupply.com with your access data – select Login on the start page. You will be asked to change your password.
It is necessary to enter your original password and then a new password twice (to confirm that it was entered correctly). The new password is then valid indefinitely. Registration on the PLATFORM of VW Group B2B suppliers is a mandatory prerequisite for business cooperation with all VW Group companies. The company master data must be identical to the company data used when applying for a D-U-N-S number (see www.upik.de ). When you log in to the B2B provider platform for the first time, the next steps of registration follow. Here you need to give us more information about your company, appoint the company administrator and accept the online B2B terms of use. . The first part of the registration is now complete; You will receive an email confirmation that your request has been received. Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal. She holds a Dipl.
Eng. in the field of systems engineering and computer science, an M.Sci. in the field of computer integrated manufacturing and a Dr.Sci in production systems engineering. She teaches subjects related to information systems, information technology and organizational models up to bachelor`s and postgraduate programs. She supervises several doctoral projects in the field of virtual companies and information systems and technologies. She regularly publishes in international peer-reviewed journals and participates in international scientific conferences. She is a member of editorial boards and associate editor for several international journals and for several scientific committees of international conferences. She is the author and editor of several books and her work appears in more than 100 articles published in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. She is co-founder and co-president of several international conferences: CENTERIS? Conference on Information Systems ENTERprise, ViNOrg – International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations: Emerging Technologies and Tools and SeGAH? IEEE International Conference on Serious Gaming and Applications for Health. [Editor] Please enter your personal details. The Registrar is responsible for registering your business.
Throughout the registration process, the Registrar is the contact person for the Volkswagen Group. The Supplier Integration Team (SIT) checks whether your company and registrar data matches that Data from Dun & Bradstreet. After a successful verification, the registrar receives the access data. You can appoint the registrar as your company`s administrator or share that role with someone else in your organization. Your information at SSR will be compared to that of Dun & Bradstreet. Only if there are no deviations will you receive your username and password with which you can log in to our platform. .