Identification and elimination of risks in Supply Chain management automobile industry

Abstract

PSA is one of the most popular car producers in the world. While being popular in Russian

Federation, head of the company made a decision to build a production plant in Kaluga.

However, after economic crisis in Russia in 2016, situation on the market has changed and

amount of sales has been severely decreased. This decreased profit of the company and

also cause many problems in operations. Therefore, the main objective of thesis was to

identify all possible risks in transportation and provide solutions to eliminate these risks.

To answer these research questions, first of all the analysis of possible risk causes was

made. Secondly the problems were identified and divided on internal and external

problems, depending on their nature. Moreover, main risks concerning transportation

were divided in four main groups and were studied separately. All data was collected from

different sources, such as: interviews, observation, workshops, literature, etc.

The results demonstrated that there are several main risks, which cause main and the

most critical problems for company. According to it, several solutions, which company can

which would not solve the problem, but would reduce amount of risks were developed

and proposed. Finally, the analysis of the thesis was done and suggestions for

improvement were proposed.

In conclusion, author wants to notice that thesis is done from theoretical point of view. All

suggestions were made to improve current situation and increase quality of

transportation.