The supply chain management and operations as key to future competitiveness for research, development and manufacture of new vehicles

The future production of new types of transportation for land, sea and air, based mainly on research, development and innovation in new materials and new types of energy according to environmental standards, will be very difficult unless they are structured around their advanced concept development through relationships management between all actors in a supply chain for manufacturing and distribution. The future of design and development of new vehicles also must incorporate innovative models for the supply chain Management, composed of key business processes that cut across the global supply chain and where the critical success factor is the degree of integration of these processes between customers and suppliers throughout the value chain, linking all actors involved in research and development, prototyping, manufacturing, marketing and aftersales. The future of the new products will also depend on efficient and competitive processes, so it will be essential to design an information management and product flow throughout the supply chain, closely linking the processes of customer relationship Management, suppliers management, order fulfilment, flow manufacturing in a Lean environment and research, development and innovation to the merchandising of the new products. In the future, we need perfect plants for the production of new vehicles and will depend on the degree of efficiency and profitability across different supply chains, this is, the competence won't be between companies, but between supply chains, and if we design an efficient and competitive chain from the same initial development, then will have lasting, safer and greener new vehicles.