Scandinavian Automotive Suppliers

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Scandinavian Automotive Suppliers
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Clepa

• 80 Corporate members
• National Associations
• ACS
• AFIA
• AGORIA
• ANFIA
• AOEM/ASA
• AUTIG
• FIEV
• ILEA
• MAJOSZ
• RAI
• SAS
• SERNAUTO
• SMMT
• VDA

• Associated members
• ACCENTURE
• ACMA
• INA
• NAPAK
• SINDIPECAS
• SUPPLY ON
• TAYSAD
• Partners
• EUROBAT
• EUROFORGE
• EUWA
• EWFA

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Scandinavian Automotive Suppliers

• Scandinavian organisation Norway, Finland and
  Sweden
• Association for automotive suppliers
• Was founded about 20 years ago
• Mainly financed by the members
• Member of Clepa
• About 330 members including their subsidiaries

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Type of members

• Suppliers of products and services to the vehicle
  
• Members are for example
• raw material and component producers as well as
  system integrators
• machining and surface treatment companies
• IT and software companies
• logistic companies
• packaging companies
• tool makers
• consultants and service companies

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Board of directors

• Christer Palm, Plastal, ordförande
• Håkon Amundsen, Kongsberg, Norpart
• Bo Annvik, SKF
• Per Axéll, Autoliv
• Margareta Hallberg-Jörbro, Nordifa
• Clas Gunneberg, Finnveden
• Harriet Lidh, Lidhs verktyg
• Björn Magnusson, Semcon
• Jouni Peltomäki, Oy Sisu Auto, Finnsuppliers

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Financing
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Objective

• Act as the sectors mouthpiece towards industry,
  politicians, authorities and media
• Create meeting places to increase and spread
  information, strengthen relations between the
  suppliers, and create opportunities for growth
• Initiate activities to strengthen competence

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Budget program 2006 Mouthpiece

• Industry discussions SAS is an active
  participant in a variety of activities
• Clepa SAS actively participates in the working
  groups SIR, Training, Quality, SME and After
  Market. SAS will be assisting at Clepas General
  Assembly in Stockholm on 15th and16th June.
• Coop. with other organisations SAS will continue
  their cooperation with BIL Sweden and will
  intensify contacts with the Assoc. of Swedish
  Engineering Industries, the Confed. Of Swedish
  Enterprise and the Federation of Private
  Enterprises
• SAS Mälardalen SASMs activities will continue
  according to plan. Efforts are being made to
  involve other regions in the cooperation.
• Media SAS continues to voice the suppliers
  opinions in the media.
• Vehicle Manufacturers SAS will continue to
  establish regular contacts with the purchasing
  departments
• The Vehicle Component The development of the
  magazine continues
• Website SAS will increase the number of services
  on the website www.fkg.se during 2006
• External conferences SAS will continue to spread
  information about the industry at conferences and
  seminars
• Recall insurance SAS will proceed with the
  project, aiming at presenting proposals for
  insurance solutions by January 2006

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Industry discussions

• Forum for dialogue
• Regulations
• Consequence analyses
• Longterm automotive research
• Green Car 2
• Strategic industry analysis
• Improved protection of Intellectual Property
  Rights
• Skills provision
• Labour regulations
• Test Site Sweden
• Industry-wide SME investments

• Research efforts particularly focussed on
  suppliers
• Internationalisation
• Promotion of exports
• Provision of capital
• Skills development for company executives
• Technical support for suppliers
• Mentoring programs for suppliers in the
  automotive industry

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Budget program 2006 Meeting places

• Annual Suppliers Forum Will take place on 31st
  August in Gothenburg
• IAA 2006 in Hannover SAS will organise a shared
  booth and seminars
• Go Global project China, BMW, Mercedes Trucks,
  Korean Transplants and Russian automotive
  industry
• Jama-Clepa 2007 in Dresden SAS will organise a
  shared booth
• Elmia Subcontractor SAS will participate with a
  booth and possibly a meeting room for tier1 2
  3 in coop. with Elmia.
• Supplier Catalogue will be published in time for
  IAA
• Breakfast/evening meetings with members will
  take place in January and February, incl.
  meetings in Norway and Finland

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Go Global summary

• Customers
• Volkswagen (2)
• Daimler Chrysler (3)
• BMW
• Jaguar/Land Rover
• Volvo Trucks in France, Brazil, USA, India
• Scania
• DAF
• MAN (2)
• Ashok Leyland
• Iveco
• Tata

• Suppliers/markets
• Estonia
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Poland
• Czech Republic
• Hungary
• France (Rhone-Alpes) (2)
• Brazil
• USA
• China
• India
• Slovakia
• Slovenia

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Budget program 2006 Skills development

• Seminars
• Contract law including bankruptcy procedures and
  Chapter 11
• Industry facts and trends
• Financing issues
• Six Sigma
• Purchasing issues acquisitions in China,
  purchasing in low cost countries
• Volvo Cars new development program
• Analyses of contracts SAS will continue to
  provide info on analyses of purchasing
  agreements
• Research programs SAS will continue to support
  the suppliers in the following programs Vehicle
  Research, Green Car, Emissions Research, IVSS and
  MERA (a production tech. program)
• Benchmarking SAS is a participant in Clepas
  benchmarking project and is also undertaking
  project in logistics
• Facts and figures SAS will proceed with the
  profitability study based on results from 2005
  and will continue to analyse industry structures

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Automotive RD programmes

• Co-operation with the Swedish government in RD
  since 1994
• Based on written agreements
• The member companies can apply for funding from
  the programmes
• The funding normally goes to the university or
  institute involved
• The industry contributes in kind
• Projects are decided in working groups where all
  key actors are represented

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Six RD programmes

• Vehicle Research Programme
• Green Car Programme
• Emissions Research Programme
• Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems Programme
• MERA, a production technology programme
• V/ICT, a IT and telematics programme
• Finnish groups with subsidiaries in Sweden are
  eligible for support
• The programmes could form a basis for cooperation

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