The V-th anniversary annual conference of suppliers took place on Tikhvin industrial site
The fifth anniversary annual conference of suppliers of the
railway holding RPC “United Wagon Company”
(RPC UWC) took place on Tikhvin industrial site. The representatives of more
than 30 Russian and foreign enterprises, among them —“Severstal”, “United Metallurgical Company”,
TC “EvrazHolding”,
“MTZ
Transmash”, “SKF”, Zanardi Fonderie (Italy) and other,
took part in the event.
This year the conference has gathered key suppliers, which
provide operational activity of Tikhvin freight car production premises of RPC “United
Wagon Company” – “Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant” and “ТikhvinChemMash”.
Main goal of the conference is to present key directions of the railway holding
development and to familiarize with new projects, being implemented on Tikhvin
industrial site.
In the course of the sessional programme of the conference
the delegates learnt about the system of requirements for RPC UWC suppliers to
meet. Stable quality of products, timely supplies and their economic
efficiency, a partner’s loyalty and transparency of the
proposed price policy hold key positions in the system hierarchy. As the last
year results indicate, RPC UWC increased by 30% volumes of purchased
commodities and material valuables and significantly widened products range. The
growth was due to both increase in Tikhvin industrial site production capacity
and development of new directions of cooperation: in particular, purchases of
commodities and material valuables for the construction of tank-cars with 25 tf
axle load.
An important event of the conference was when key and
strategic suppliers were awarded Certificates. Honorable distinctions were
awarded to enterprises-partners as one of the ways to emphasize special
qualities and competences of the best suppliers of the railway holding RPC UWC,
as well as high level of the companies’ effective partnership.
Following the results of the conference Maxim Kuzemchenko,
Deputy CEO for Business Development at RPC UWC, said: “For the last
five years the conference of suppliers became the traditional place of meetings
with partners for us, its platform provides the opportunity not only to dwell
on our company’s successes, but also to resolve important business issues
right here. A possibility to exchange opinions in an online mode is significant
in the current economic situation, since the partners are the very ones who
determine prime cost and, as a consequence, our products competitiveness. Our production
sites are developing, that’s why it is vital that not only we, but
our partners as well, have an understanding that the effectiveness of joint
work is a combination of the respect of each parties’ interests and
each parties’ aiming at long-term cooperation”.
Armen Grigoryan, Commercial Director at LLC “Centavra”,
pointed out: "The responsibility is a key factor for us in business
partnership issues; the responsibility which serves as an assurance of high
level of mutual understanding and loyalty of both parties. The very relations
have developed between our companies”.
Polina Zlatkina, Cofounder of LLC “Hermes Ural”, added: “The principle of mutual benefit is fundamental for companies cooperation, therefore in many respects the success of partnership depends on the ability and desire of both parties to come to an agreement. Cooperation with UWC is completely in line with our requirements, and we hope that our partnership relations will develop”.