Red Sofa Interview | Nissan’s Gerardo de la Torre on cyber security and digital action plans for automotive supply chains

De la Torre, regional senior director, Supply Chain Management (SCM) USA & Mexico, Nissan Group of North America spoke to Christopher Ludwig, chief content officer, Automotive Logistics about digitalisation and enforcing a positive new mindset towards it across the OEM.

“The old supply chain mindset only started from tier one, but now we have all new legislation and requirements and a need for understanding where raw materials are coming from,” he said. “We have spent more than a year developing digital tools to enable significant efficiencies to our suppliers and to see how they are corresponding to the requirements. We can demonstrate that we comply.”

Read more: De la Torre on Nissan’s digital shift 

A part of this mindset shift to enable more compliance and cyber security, as well as visibility, comes down to talent. ”A key pillar is people and targeted development, finding and allocating the right talent,” he said. 

”We created several new positions in our organisation as part of our strategy, including a new supply chain compliance manager, going in a very good way. Also we created a cyber security department, from tier-n all the way to manufacturing and delivering to the customer.”

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