Gestão da cadeia dos sistemistas: o caso da inclusão dos subfornecedores impostos pela montadora

Abstract

The delegation of sub-suppliers by an american car maker to its local first tier suppliers is a common practice in an industrial automotive park located in Brazil. There is a lack of studies in the literature about this type of supplier’s delegation thru dimensions presented in supply chain management, such as: flexibility. suppliers, quality, deliveries and stocks, geographical aspects, supply chain costs, lead-time and cooperation among the tiers. This study main goal is to feel this gap analyzing how sub-suppliers defined by the car maker affect the supply management of these first tier suppliers considering these dimensions. The quality research was done thru meetings with first tier suppliers employees that have a good knowledge about the companie’s business and a clear understanding of the relationship with the directed sub-suppliers. The results suggest that a demand concentrantion in a sub-supplier has a negative impact over the first tier suppliers reducing the flexibility, constraining the learning among the tiers, raising the costs due to geographical dispersion and reducing the cooperation as a result of power diferences. On the other hand, positive contributions were identified with material cost reduction and the possibility to use the car maker’s structure to solve quality problems.