Suppliers capacity at Trigano

Trigano is Europe's specialist in leisure equipment and outdoor living, and France's leading manufacturer of motorhomes and caravans.

Supplier capacity risk management

The Tournon-sur-Rhône site manufactures leisure vehicles for 500 dealers in Europe. As part of a strategic increase in sales volumes, the site needs to increase its production capacity and consequently secure its suppliers capacities, in a global context of raw material shortages and new logistical constraints.

Our mission

  • Audit suppliers supported by teamwork between procurement and purchasing departments to measure actual and foreseeable risks.
  • Segment suppliers and risks according to available data.
  • Set up “top 5” crisis and vigilance meetings with both procurement and purchasing departments.
  • Define and monitor supplier action plans with all buyers.
  • Negotiate standard and customized supplier commitment contracts.

Results achieved

  • Transformation of the supplier approach used by the procurement and purchasing departments, new supplier management methods recognized and applied by both departments.
  • 172 suppliers audited.
  • 60 high-risk suppliers identified, with 144 associated actions launched by the procurement and purchasing teams.
  • 62 commitment proposals, 32 of which resulted in an agreement after negotiation.
  • 3 Trigano VDL/supplier operations reviewed and improved.

Customer quotes

With Axsant, we were able to build up and deploy the entire supplier risk management process with a very good resource/efficiency ratio. It is now an important pillar of our purchasing policy.

Purchasing Manager