On November 19-20, 2020, the Cluster organized a visit of 4 representatives of MOBIS MODULE CIS to the Samara region. During the negotiations, there were visited several enterprises, such as SED (Syzran), Region Volga and Rosavtoplast (Togliatti). Also, there were held individual negotiations with the Heads of these enterprises and discussed the issues of further business relations development.

JSC "Belebeevsky zavod "Avtonormal" ("BelZAN") became the first Russian supplier of automotive fasteners for Volkswagen Rus. The corresponding agreement was signed between two companies for 4 years. The company will supply more than 9 million of fasteners units annually for Volkswagen and Škoda passenger cars. The products are already used in the bodies assembly and the units installation at the Kaluga plant and a separate division of Volkswagen Rus in Nizhny Novgorod.

The main goal in the supply chain management is to find the most effective economic model for the goods flow with subsequent transformation into end products and delivery to the end customer, considering features of all chain participants.

The Ministry of industry and trade announced the localization level of the most popular foreign and domestic cars. The most profitable AVTOVAZ model — Lada Vesta, that has an average score, but even its level is 2.5 times lower than the maximum possible. The situation is even worse for foreign cars produced in Russia. They are equipped with Russian components twice as bad as the AVTOVAZ bestseller. Whether it's good or bad, "Gazeta.Ru" tried to found out.

Change management procedure must be applied by auto component suppliers at the pre-production stages, during mass production and changes, including any product changes, process, production conditions, quality or volume.

When trainings the Cluster uses modern training methods, one of them is business games.

The senator held a round table conference on measures to support the domestic automotive industry development.

On November 12, Kiekert Supplier Day took place in the format of a video conference followed by B2B. The event was organized by the Cluster of Automotive Industry, Alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi and Kiekert.