Material group
A material group (also known as a material group ) brings together different individual parts that are made from the same basic material or raw material . The differentiation of material groups can be freely defined and can be relatively coarse or fine, this depends on the respective purpose. Examples of material groups: iron or ferrous metal, copper, plastic, rubber, leather, wood, etc.
For international manufacturing companies such as the automotive industry , it is important to bundle the resources required for production accordingly and thus to be able to plan and evaluate better. This is to ensure long-term security of supply, the procurement or purchase of materials for production, and savings in purchase prices are achieved. Rare earths have played a special role in this recently , and their availability is becoming increasingly difficult and important.
See also
literature
- Garcia Sanz et al. a. (Ed.): The automotive industry on the way to global network competence . Springer, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-70783-7 .
- Ulli Arnold: procurement management . 2nd Edition. Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-7910-9181-6 .
- Gerhard Heß: Supply strategies in purchasing and procurement. Systematic approach and practical cases . 2nd Edition. Gabler, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-1991-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ G. Sanz: The automotive industry on the way to global network competence . Springer, Berlin 2007, p. 14, p. 18.