Red Sofa Interview: VW Truck & Bus Mexico’s plans to increase localisation

Halley Vieira, plant manager in Production and Logistics, VW Truck & Bus Mexico speaks to Christopher Ludwig, editor-in-chief, Automotive Logistics at ALSC Mexico about the Mexican division’s move towards a more localised supply chain.

“We are about to start a new phase at Volkswagen Truck & Bus in Mexico,” he says. ”For such a long time, we were importing a huge amount of components out of Brazil, and now we see it is time to start localising more of our products and parts. In that sense, we see VW is already very well structured here.”

Vieira says the division has the benefit of “taking synergies from” the VW Group and also from Traton Group, VW’s commercial vehicle unit. “From the VW perspective, we have similar systems and part numbers and can take advantage of very well structured processes, but VW are not producing trucks. In that sense, we can have a lot of synergy with Traton Group,” he says. 

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