Leading Manufacturing Companies – Bombardier Transportation

“In today’s competitive landscape, though the basics always remain the same, companies need to improvise their ways of operation to maintain their lead position in the industry,” feels Chhabra. At Bombardier, the aim is to continuously optimise their supply chain and ensure efficient project and commodity management. They work closely with suppliers to ensure flawless execution of projects and enhance competitiveness through standardisation and innovation. The plan is to establish strategic partnerships with suppliers and work out supplier development plans in the future. “As a strategic function, we deliver top performance, leverage Bombardier’s global scale and integrate suppliers in mutually beneficial partnerships,” says Chhabra.
Bombardier is focusing on a few initiatives such as: variablisation of costs, which is a paradigm shift from pure cost reduction; enhancing real time information and sophisticated modeling to predict outcomes and take actions ahead of time over vanilla inventory reduction exercises; and having smarter supply chain operations matching demand with sourcing and manufacturing capacity around the world, instead of running each facility separately.
Chhabra is of the opinion that GST would be a good economic driver for the country, which will eventually result in more investment for the improvement of railway infrastructure. GST will bring in more transparency and a process-driven approach with less documentation, which will give confidence to MNCs like Bombardier to operate, invest and Make in India.