Suppliers and Partners

Accept no mistakes, make no mistakes, pass on no mistakes – based on this forward-looking zero-error principle, we ensure optimum quality assurance measures. Together with you as a supplier, we set standards for process variables such as quality, adherence to deadlines and inventory costs. A continuous improvement process and our regularly certified quality management systems form the basis for swift implementation. We expect the same commitment from our suppliers and partners.

Our employees’ commitment forms the basis for maintaining and developing our competitive edge. We respond to the increasing demands in the procurement process by deliberately promoting our employees’ technical and social competence.

Lean processes and short throughput times call for mastering the diversity of variants whilst tying up only minimum funds in materials and finished products. Our lean management ensures short decision-making channels for administrative processes. At the same time, it is important to consider both the organisational and technical side, as well as the human dimension, since only the people involved can ensure that measures are implemented efficiently and unfavourable workflows are eliminated.

Protection of the environment is important to us. We have therefore created a management system that also covers environmental protection requirements and environmental compatibility, in particular with regard to recycling, packaging, waste disposal and transport.

As a manufacturer of capital goods, we are looking mainly for business-to-business solutions. Taking into account cost/benefit aspects, we make efficient use of the internet. In this way, we ensure continuous improvement of procurement processes between suppliers and MAN by reducing transaction costs and transaction times.

Purchasing decisions are based solely on objective and comprehensive criteria. Suppliers and partners are selected and their performance assessed using uniform methods and criteria.

Customer satisfaction is our ultimate corporate goal. In our efforts to achieve it, we use interdisciplinary methods in order to guarantee the best combination of performance, delivery and price. Together with our suppliers and partners, we bear responsibility for ensuring that production parts, general material and services meet customers’ high demands.

Economy is the name of our game. This calls for the highest quality standards in order to meet the expectations of our customers. This is why we define quality as an integral part of our corporate goals. Together with our suppliers, we undertake the task of guaranteeing the quality of purchased parts. Along with component quality, we attach great importance to process quality, which largely determines smooth operation of our logistics processes. Efficient IT systems that provide the right information in the necessary quality are an essential factor in this. In the same way, it is a minimum requirement for general materials and services to always comply with ISO standards 9001 and 14001. To assess the quality of our suppliers and partners, we regularly evaluate their efficiency in the fields of engineering, commercial processes, quality and logistics and inform them of the results.

In order to be competitive at all times, our procurement activities are undertaken systematically and on an international scale, and our global production facilities provide solutions offering low overall costs.

We see ourselves as a service provider within the company and also as a link between suppliers and partners as well as engineering and production operations. Based on our simultaneous engineering practices, integration from initial development to the maturity stage and subsequent series production is a basic requirement for fulfilling our job as a service provider within the company to the best of our ability. Open communication between you and us is just as much a part of this.