O diagnóstico da utilização do suprimento enxuto na indústria automotiva brasileira

Abstract

With the increasing openness of the international markets, and increasing demands on the part of vehicle manufacturers, it is necessary that the first and second level suppliers become increasingly competitive in order to continue integrating the crowded automotive supply chain. However, there are determinants for such suppliers’ abrupt fall in this scenario and affluent, considering the cultural issues and requirements specific to each of them is subjected to supply the selection process.Currently, the literature does not provide much information to the advancement of knowledge in the academic, causing some propositions to be called into question, for example: what is the extent of use of lean supply practices in the Brazilian automotive industry? Do the Suppliers follow all practices required by the methodology?In order to answer these questions the research proposes to carry out a wide and extensive review of the literature, followed by a survey, in order to ascertain to what extent the practices are being adopted by vendors that are part of the supply chain of the major automakers world's vehicles, installed in Brazil.The foundation of the research will be characterized as applied, quantitative, and nature as their approach being defined with exploratory objectives and correlational. It was used as method the survey, whose data collection instrument was through questionnaires. The companies surveyed, the Brazilian automotive sector, will be part of the supply chain of three major automakers, divided by its continental origin, one Japanese, one American and finally a European. They were obtained fourty nine questionnaires that were answered by tier suppliers and component suppliers from tier 1 and tier 2 of the supply chain. I assumed that this work may show that the actual level of implementation of lean supply this relationship between manufacturers and suppliers on the national scene, opening future opportunities for new research into other niches that might be in the supply chain.