OREANDA-NEWS. KAMAZ has changed the system of working with its suppliers. The new approach will enable the company to enhance transparency, reduce expenses and lower the primary cost of products.

Firstly, the company established the Block of OJSC KAMAZ’s Deputy General Director of Purchasing. The block includes the Purchasing Center, which buys products for the main assembly conveyor of the automobile plant, and OOO STFK KAMAZ, which makes purchases for dealerships and service centers. The main task of the new block is to enhance transparency, minimize expenses and optimize procurement processes. In order to achieve this goal, KAMAZ decided to cooperate with manufacturers directly, without intermediary firms, and try to beat down prices in the course of negotiations with suppliers. These measures will help to combat parasitizing companies which sell the automobile plant overpriced raw materials and components, but purchase products at cost prices.

The adopted policy is very reasonable. Thus, since the beginning of 2013, the company has reduced expenses to the sum of over 420 million roubles, also due to lower prices of products delivered to the Purchasing Center. Besides, the company stopped working with several dishonest intermediaries who had supplied overpriced products. For instance, KAMAZ had to purchase components produced by BelOMA with a price markup of 90% (via ZAO KamZAATs), and fire extinguishers OP-2 by Yarpozhinvest were delivered to the automobile plant through Promspetssnab which marked up 60%! So, KAMAZ will strictly follow the policy of direct cooperation with manufacturers.