Ford Motor Company Russia

in Ford Russia (a subsidiary of the American company) Ford Motor Company is a plant in Vsevolzhsk producing the Focus and Mondeo models, plus a central sales office located in. To Moscow Construction The plant began in 1999 and was commissioned in 2002.

History

2023

Changing the name of the former Sollers and Ford JV

In March 2023, the legal entity of the former joint venture of the automotive group "Sollers" and the American automaker Ford in the Russian Federation (Sollers Ford LLC) was renamed Sollers Service Management LLC and will continue warranty service for light trucks. Ford Transit

Conversion of the former Ford plant in Russia for wood processing production

The former Ford plant in Russia began to be converted into a wood processing plant. This was reported on February 2, 2023 in the press service of the Committee for Economic Development and Investment Activities of the Leningrad Region.

The site of the former Ford plant in the Leningrad region belongs to the manufacturer of auto components, but he was forced to suspend the process of launching production. Part of the territory is leased by a wood processing plant, and the company is successfully functioning. The investor is working in production debugging mode, the committee said in a statement quoted by TASS.

Former Ford plant in Vsevolozhsk

At the same time, the name of the organization that implements the project on the territory of the former Ford enterprise was not disclosed. It is only noted that the woodworking company has entered into a lease agreement for part of the territory.

At the end of 2022, TASS, citing the press service of the Leningrad Region Administration, reported that the South Korean manufacturer of car kits Sungwoo Hitech (SV RUS) had postponed the launch of production of auto components in this region indefinitely. On January 31, 2023, the Governor of the Leningrad Region announced that negotiations with South Korean companies to restart the former Ford plant in Vsevolozhsk have not been interrupted to date, but have been suspended.

The site in Vsevolozhsk has been mothballed since 2019, after Ford left Russia. Sungwoo Hitech Rus became the owner of the plant in December 2021, the volume of investments was estimated at 6.8 billion rubles. The Korean company is producing stiffness edges for bumpers and side doors of cars. One of its factories operates in Levashovo.^[1]

Until the summer of 2019, the Vsevolozhsk plant produced the popular Ford Focus and Ford Mondeo models in Russia.

2022

Exit JV with Sollers and sell its 49% stake

At the end of October 2022, Ford announced its withdrawal from a joint venture with Sollers by selling its 49 percent stake to a Russian group. Thus, the American automaker finally left the Russian market. Read more here.

Suspension of activities in Russia

The American corporation Ford suspends activities in Russia in connection with the events in Ukraine. This became known on March 2, 2022.

In connection with the current situation, we have informed our partners in the joint venture that we are suspending our activities in Russia from that moment until further notice, the company said in a statement.

In addition, it is noted that Ford has been reducing its work in Russia for several years. The company's operations boiled down to commercial minibus production and sales in Russia at the expense of a minority stake in the Sollers Ford joint venture^[2] in Russia, the statement^[3].

2010

Company portfolio

The rich and long history of the business, its regional ramification, numerous mergers and transformations all left an imprint on the corporation's systemic landscape. It is difficult to quantify the portfolio of systems used around the world; as of September 2010, this portfolio exceeds two hundred different products.

From the interview Chief information officer Igor Kovalyov

Often, functional departments do not have a complete picture of the development of systems and, accordingly, expectations are raised about the time required to implement changes. However, at Ford - on my initiative and with the support of the CFO - we conducted an experiment: every week a local working group gathered, which included representatives of the IT department and departments whose orders are in operation. For these meetings, IT prepared three tables, which were updated during the discussion of the current status of projects.

In the first, relatively small, as practice has shown, the table turned out to be work, the implementation of which depended on the IT department, that is, projects in the stage of programming, error correction or other technical issues.

In the second table, the longest of the three, there were tasks where the ball was in the hands of business customers: missing or not yet fully approved by the customer applications and specifications developed, but not yet tested or confirmed by the customer solutions.

These meetings took place almost every week for several years and showed that the development of the system is usually delayed not due to the fault of the IT department, and this delay in deadlines can be avoided if you plan all stages of approvals and the availability of resources for testing in advance. The figure was also confirmed that programming takes from 10% to 20% of the time required for implementation. The rest of the time is spent writing and approving specifications, as well as testing.

The third table contained information about how many hours it takes to support a particular system module. The last table is needed in order to more clearly calculate how many hours a year it takes for comprehensive support for an ERP solution.