Automotive Industry:Industry Associations
The automotive industry is served by a number of industry associations. These associations are tasked with providing standards for how automotive companies exchange information electronically with each other. Due to global expansion in recent years, the industry associations around the world are starting to work more closely with each other to allow the automotive companies to set up new plants and onboard new business partners as quickly as possible.
The automotive industry associations are located in the main manufacturing hubs around the world, for example North America, Europe and Japan. They actively work to get the automotive companies in their respective regions to become members of their associations and to contribute to the various working groups and projects that are undertaken. Typical projects include Materials Management Operations Guideline and Logistics Evaluation (MMOG/LE), OFTP2, Materials Off-Shore Sourcing (MOSS) project. The work of the industry associations provides the ideal environment to beta test these projects before they are deployed in production across the automotive industry.
Some of the main industry associations include Odette which serves the European automotive industry. Within this group the VDA organization serves the requirements of the automotive companies based in Germany and Galia serves the automotive companies in France. The Automotive Industry Action group (AIAG) serves the North American automotive industry and the Japanese Automotive Manufacturers Association (JAMA) serves the Japanese automotive industry.
