Volkswagen Group is restructuring management of its procurement capabilities to higher deal with provide chain disruption.

Audi’s procurement and IT boss, Dirk Grosse-Loheide, is promoted to move group procurement. He will even and take over from Murat Aksel as procurement chief for the VW passenger automobiles model.

Aksel will be a part of the administration board of VW’s MAN Truck & Bus subsidiary, taking on from Stefan Gramse, who will transfer to a bunch perform at VW, the automaker stated in a press release on Tuesday.

At Audi, Große-Loheide will proceed to supervise procurement capabilities and IT till his successor is appointed.

VW Group CEO Oliver Blume stated Große-Loheide’s job shall be to additional stabilize the group’s provide chains in shut collaboration with suppliers.

One of many key duties assigned to Aksel at MAN shall be to additional stabilize the corporate’s provide chains, which proceed to be strained through the persevering with ramp-up of truck manufacturing for heavy industrial automobiles, Blume added.

Aksel, a former BMW government, has been VW’s chief buying officer since January 2021.

The modifications will come into impact on Jan. 1, VW stated.

Like most automakers, VW has suffered supply bottlenecks and manufacturing stops due to shortages of semiconductors and different parts.

Earlier this month, VW model chief Thomas Schaefer stated the corporate’s Wolfsburg plant is constructing effectively underneath 400,000 automobiles a 12 months, lower than half its capability, due to “flat-out chaos” within the provide chain.

Reuters contributed to this report