Top Tier 1 Auto Suppliers & Covisint Discuss Supply Chain E-Business at EyeForAuto USA 2000
5 October 2000
Top Tier 1 Auto Suppliers & Covisint Discuss Supply Chain E-Business at EyeForAuto USA 2000
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 5 Top level E-Business executives
from TRW, Covisint, Federal Mogul, Siemens, Magna International, Freudenberg-
NOK, Denso North America, Lear Corp, Johnson Controls, Clarion, Collins and
Aikman and Motorola meet to discuss and debate the key issues for Tier 1
Suppliers in E-Business, the Aftermarket and Telematics in San Jose, November
29 - Dec 1. http://www.eyeforauto.com/sanjose
John Kay, Global E-Business Director for TRW and one of the keynote
speakers at the event says that: "The competitive push is on for the Tier One
supplier in the automotive industry to do more; cut costs while maintain a
competitive advantage. E-Business as it turns out is becoming the competitive
tool for today's manufacture, it is no longer an OE and Tier One initiative
but a total supply chain challenge."
Another keynote speaker, Siemens Automotive CIO Bill Macfarlane will be
discuss the importance of new product development using the new technologies
and adds that: "As a Tier 1 Supplier if you have not started on your
E-Business plan you are close to being too late"
Other Conference speakers include Senior executives from Toyota, Ford,
Onstar, Audi, BMW, Honda, Mercedes Benz, Infiniti and many others, check the
website for details at http://www.eyeforauto.com/sanjose
The conference also includes a free plant tour on Nov 29 of the Joint GM
and Toyota NUMMI plant in nearby Fremont, CA for the first 50 registrants for
the conference and workshops and over 4 hours of intensive E-Training
workshops on Web-based CRM and the E-Supply Chain.
Click on http://www.eyeforauto.com/sanjose/program.html for the full
program. Sponsors of the conference already include Cap Gemini Ernst & Young,
Syncata, Proxicom, Adexa, SAP, i2 Technologies, Webraska, gedas, MicroStrategy
and Telcontar.
There will also be a highly focused technology exhibition alongside the
conference and workshops featuring over 50 High tech automotive companies
-- Expo attendees can register free at:
http://www.eyeforauto.com/sanjose/register.html
About EyeForAuto:
The EyeForAuto event series and online communities are creations of FC
Group, a London and San Francisco-based company specializing in providing the
world's best business information about E-Business in vertical markets. The
website provides free industry E-Business information and free weekly and
monthly newsletters for auto executives:
http://www.eyeforauto.com/auto/news.html
For enquiries, please contact Toby Webb on 1-800-814-3459 /
Toby@eyeforauto.com
CONTACT: Toby Webb, Director of EyeForAuto, 800-814-3459 or
+44-207-275-7561, or toby@eyeforauto.com