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VOLVO CARS GO FOR TENG TOOLS A co-operation agree
ment between Volvo Cars and Swedish retailer chain TOOLS ensures that all Volvo Cars’ production and maintenance units in Sweden will exclusively use the Teng Tools product range when it comes to standard hand tools. - There are several reasons behind this agreement, says Bo Warenius, responsible for the stock optimisation project at Volvo Cars. - We wanted to create uniformity between all factories within the group, in order to be able to decrease the number of suppliers and get good purchase volumes. The most important thing though, was to find an optimal assortment, with regard to quality, range and price. According to Bo Warenius, the stock optimisation project picture is in which the part central within Volvo works with Commodity Management a so called Supplier concept, CMS for short, which includes common sourcing, where different products are purchased across the group. In close co-operation with TOOLS West and their Wennberg, part of Teng Tools range salesman Fredrik has been tested at Volvo plants with good results. After the tests, the maintenance of a bigger organisation directors at Volvo’s four plants in Sweden (Torslanda, Floby, Skövde and Olofström) decided that Teng Tools would be the brand used when it comes to hand tools. - It is a win-win situation for all parties involved, in this case Volvo, TOOLS, Teng Tools and Luna, says Bo Warenius. SRM-catalogue Orders are placed by the plants via requisition directly to TOOLS West locally for next day delivery. Everything is done according to an internal hierarchical order, to keep track of all orders and purchases. - The plan is to design a catalogue in SRM, with a customised assortment of the most high volume hand tools, to make it easier for purchasers and users to order from TOOLS West, Fredrik Wennberg explains. - We will continue to roll out the CMS concept to our plants outside of Sweden, for example in Belgium, says Bo Warenius. - Our goal is to have a common IT-system where we have full control of everything between our plants. A positive reception At a joint one-day exhibition at Volvo Torslanda in Gothenburg, hosted by TOOLS West and representatives from both Luna and Teng Tools, the end users at Volvo were invited to take a closer look at the product range. - The response we got was very good and we feel confident that Teng Tools is a brand to count on in the market. We know that force of habit can be hard to break when it comes to using a new hand tool, but in this case we are convinced that it will work out just fine, says Fredrik Wennberg. And considering the response from one of the fair visitors - “When you see this you just want to start working!” – the change of hand tools will probably not be a problem. According to Karin Klouman at Teng Tools, another positive effect is that the end users contribute to product development by letting Teng Tools know which new products they need and also help in refining the existing products with suggestions. So it really is a win-win situation. constructive criticism and 5