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ECONOMIC REPORT
PROCUREMENT // PRODUCTION
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By conducting detailed in-depth analyses and competitor com-
parisons, we can optimize the cost structures and concepts for
our components hand in hand with our suppliers. Through
cross-disciplinary collaboration with Development, Quality
Assurance and Controlling, we can thus create innovations and
technologies that are also competitive from a cost viewpoint.
/ STRATEGIC INTEGRATION OF SUPPLIERS
Entering into dialogue with suppliers early on is also a signifi-
cant factor in promoting internationalization and developing
innovations. Volkswagen Group Procurement therefore
launched an exclusive supplier program in the past fiscal year
in an effort to integrate selected, strategically relevant suppli-
ers more closely into our Group network. Starting in spring
2015, we will be able to offer those partners a particularly
high degree of planning certainty, expertise protection and
transparency. We will integrate them into our investment and
product plans from an early stage and maintain an intensive
dialogue with them at planning conferences and strategy
discussions. In return, we expect close cooperation on a global
scale and exclusive access to innovations.
/ SUSTAINABILITY
Sustainability in supplier relations is also at the very heart of
our procurement philosophy. Having set the bar high for cor-
porate social responsibility, we expect our suppliers and busi-
ness partners to uphold defined governance, environmental
and social standards both for themselves and to expect the
same from their own suppliers. This requirement has been a
core feature of our contracts since the end of 2013.
Back in 2013, we signed up to the Aluminium Stewardship
Initiative (ASI) – a non-profit initiative involving leading man-
ufacturers in the aluminum industry. The purpose of the initi-
ative was to develop a global standard for sustainable alumi-
num by the end of 2014, defining environmental and social
criteria along the entire value chain from raw material extrac-
tion to recycling. This standard was approved and published at
the end of the past fiscal year.
PRODUCTION
We increased automotive production in the Audi Group to
1,804,624 (1,608,048) vehicles in the 2014 fiscal year. Of this
total, 529,205 (420,060) vehicles of the Audi brand were
made by the joint venture FAW-Volkswagen Automotive
Company, Ltd. in Changchun (China), at its two locations
Changchun and Foshan. Overall, 1,801,974 (1,605,926) Audi
vehicles and 2,650 (2,122) supercars of the Lamborghini
brand were built worldwide in the 2014 fiscal year.
The Ducati Group built a total of 45,339 (45,018) motorcycles
from January through December 2014.
/ AUTOMOTIVE SEGMENT
At the main Group location in Ingolstadt, we manufactured
572,022 (576,680) vehicles of the Audi brand in the period
under review.
Over the same period, a total of 273,168 (275,650) vehicles
were built in Neckarsulm.
AUDI HUNGARIA MOTOR Kft. produced a total of 135,232
(42,851) cars of the TT model line and A3 family in GyƉr
(Hungary) in 2014.
Between January and December 2014, 115,378 (120,520)
vehicles of the A1 family left the Brussels (Belgium) plant,
operated by AUDI BRUSSELS S.A./N.V.
In addition, the Volkswagen Group locations Bratislava
(Slovakia) and Martorell (Spain) built 60,990 (63,543) of the
Audi Q7 and 115,979 (106,622) of the Audi Q3 respectively.
In the past fiscal year, the Chinese joint venture
FAW-Volkswagen Automotive Company, Ltd., Changchun,
produced a total of 483,175 (419,984) cars of the A4 L, A6 L,
Q3 and Q5 models at its company headquarters in Changchun,
and 46,030 (76) vehicles of the A3 family in the southern
Chinese city of Foshan.
The Ingolstadt, Neckarsulm, GyƉr (Hungary), Bratislava
(Slovakia) and Martorell (Spain) locations supplied parts and
components for the assembly of a total of 11,300 (8,864) cars
at the plant in Aurangabad (India).