‘Inform your suppliers for success’
3 April 2012
Sharing information with suppliers and customers and better e-commerce systems are the way forward for off-road vehicle manufacturers, according to the head of a UK engine manufacturer.
Mike Baunton, president of diesel-engine maker Perkins Engines, said that changing relations with suppliers, increasing customer demands and developments in e-commerce were changing the way the firm, which produces more than 300,000 engines a year and sells to 160 countries, operated.
E-commerce would allow Perkins to produce custom-made engines, Baunton told a...