Asian Automotive Industry and
Collaboration Portals
Luc Hovan
Co-Chairman, APEC Automotive Dialogue, IT Working Group
Managing Director, Covisint Asia Pacific
Bangkok, 22 May 2002
Covisint Outline
•Strategic Procurement Services
More than 1500 online bidding events
Over 60 billion in transactions
More than 200 catalogs with 2.5 million individual skus, over 100000
transactions
Quote Management (eRFQ) and Virtual Project Workspace over 500
individual users
•Connectivity Services
Over 2300 individual users for Fullfilment (inventory visibility)
Over 7000 companies registered to Covisint globally
Covisint Outline
•Covisint LLC headquarterd in Southfield, Michigan, US
•Covisint Europe BV, in Amsterdam with presence in France,
Germany and the UK
•Covisint Asia Pacific, in Tokyo with presence in Singapore
Website at www.covisint.com
Tokyo headquarters at +81 3 5772 0280
lhovan@covisint.com
Mission Statement
•Third meeting of APEC Auto
Dialogue:
IT identified as key tool to
expose regional suppliers to
global industry
•Japan and USA propose
jointly the IT Manifesto with
Action agenda.
Car Industry: from National to Regional
•Dynamic Asian Industry
- launch regional programs (as part of global platform)
- accelerate new product development
- specialization of production sites in Asia Pacific
- increasing logistics flows in the region
- increasing competitiveness of regional suppliers
- Europe and US investments in Japan, Korea and Asia
- cost reduction plans by car makers and suppliers
- increase capacities in North America and Asia Pacific