Our unique core competencies
The strength of our technological capability creates a platform for strong growth in the future. Yazaki's core competencies allow us to provide unique benefits for our customers.
Starting out as a manufacturing company, over a long period of time Yazaki has accumulated and consolidated expertise in many areas, such as consulting, development, industrialisation and lifecycle management, based on extensive, first-hand experience.
Worldwide Engineering Competence
Value Added Logistics
Yazaki Europe Logistics meets and exceeds customer and supplier requirements with its fully-integrated Pan European Transport Module and Supply Chain Management System. We dependably deliver to you while simultaneously minimising CO2 emissions – fulfilling your needs and protecting those of the environment. This well-structured, well-operated and efficiently managed network is the Yazaki “Value Added Logistics” service system, serving your business with
- Flexibility
- Dependability
- Quality
- Speed
- Innovation
- Environmental protection
- Cost-effectiveness
The particular logistic expertise covers delivery services tailored to your demand (JIT, JIS, SILS, Modular SILS), production logistics to reduce lead time through efficient production (KANBAN/pull system) and plant logistics to ensure that material for your product is always available at the right time and place.
Environmentally-related logistics subjects
Yazaki cares for the environment. We use and employ measures designed to lessen our business’s impact on the world around us. Our Pan-European transport concept includes the reduction of inbound truck traffic through the combination of returnable packaging and inbound components. These standardised processes result in lower CO2 emissions per purchased value.
Both inbound and outbound transport is managed through our transport company web portal which is used for planning purposes, tracking and tracing as well as KPI measures (Yazaki, supplier and hauler performance) and optimisation of route efficiency.
Studies are regularly performed to increase packaging density, in order to reduce transportation and related CO2 emissions. One outcome, for example, is a new foldable packaging system with improved return ratio.
Lifecycle management
With Yazaki as your service provider of choice, you can count on our support throughout all lifecycle phases of your product. Our project management system provides a sound basis for comprehensive lifecycle management, including:
- Common definition of design targets in the concept phase
- On-site service during the development process
- Flexible and quick supply of prototype parts
- Industrialisation planning within our customers’ targets
- Full product history documentation available at any time
- Management of all environmental aspects and End of Life Vehicles (ELV) directive
- Continuous improvement activities during the product lifetime
- Spare part management and supply
Environmental performance is becoming increasingly important and new vehicle programmes include several important targets for environmental product design, such as improving the reusability, recyclability and recoverability of cars, the reduction of substances of concern as well as the increase of fuel efficiency.
We ensure that these goals are met by
- Considering environmental expectations as part of the total product design.
- Effectively integrating environmental design in the early stages of product design.
Environmental care is a salient part of Yazaki's corporate strategy as laid down in the “Design for Environment” guideline, which enables our engineers to assess the environmental performance of future products or the environmental impact of proposed design changes.
We are a safe and secure partner for customer spare part delivery commitments and warranty demand requirements. Yazaki has a global product tracking and quality reporting process that allows us to trace any faults back to specific component batches and provides our customers with quick and accurate response times in order to fix issues promptly.
With us, our OEM customers can bridge the gap between the short lifecycle of component availability and the long lifecycle of the product.
Yazaki is closely collaborating with its suppliers in jointly investigating solutions to ensure a seamless customer delivery in case of changes or end of life of sub-components, materials and tools.
We provide tool storage for our customers after the expiration or termination of an order.
