Helping the
world's leading car makers...
OEMs need suppliers and
partners they can trust, who operate where they do, and who understand the
pressures they are under.
They face tough challenges:
mature markets; emerging markets; working across so many different languages
and cultures; legal and environmental issues such as reducing carbon emissions;
maintaining and improving the supply chain; and of course, keeping dealers and
customers loyal to their brand.
Clifford Thames knows this
territory well. We?ve been helping OEMs for over forty years.
Our approach is to immerse
ourselves in the culture of each OEM: how it likes to organise itself and how
it does business; how its supply chain works; how it likes to manage and
motivate dealer networks; and how it wants to develop and improve.
We often put our own people
into OEMs' offices. This provides the best platform
for partnership and speeds up implementation.
We create bespoke
information and consultancy systems for each OEM, depending on its needs. We set up performance
measurements that are part of an OEM's management information system.
We recognise that we can
only grow if they do.
There are four ways we help
OEMs: