Chrysler Company Case Study

. Policies
Once analyzed the most relevant challenges that Chrysler faces at present. By and large, we may realize that Chrysler focuses on 3 important points, which encompass its strategies, objectives and goals: forming a community with suppliers, committing to care for the environment and improving their workflows.
5.1 Forming a partnership with suppliers
Nowadays, the control cost has become one of the highest priorities within companies, therefore, few companies seek to join forces with its suppliers in order to obtain economic benefits from these partnerships. The basis for long-term cooperation between the client and its suppliers are principally the construction and the support of relations between both parties, which are directly

• There must be equity sharing the benefits of cooperation.
• The supplier switches from "adversary" to "collaborator."
Beyond their individual characteristics, these programs are intended sharing the obtained benefits by reducing costs. Generally, the program may differ, but, at the end, it focuses mainly on long-lasting relationships that encourage collaboration and generate profits for both parties. (ALLPAR, 2017)
5.2 Committing to care for the environment
As it mentioned above, the company has a great responsibility caring for the environment. Thus, they have developed diverse policies for following to foment this engagement both inside and outside of the company. Therefore, Chrysler has established four relevant principles, which summarize widely the environmental challenges: Protection of the environment during all activities and operations; Accomplish with the environmental legislation; Participation and capacitation of human resources; Compromise for continuous

An example that was pretty known is what occurred at January 2017when the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), which accused to company of excess CO2 emission for the producing Dodge Ram and Jeep Grand Cherokees with 3.0-liter diesel engine in the model year 2014-2016, owing to a big mistake in the software responsible for testing the amounts of CO2, displaying a lower level while running the test. It generated a violation of the law similar what occurred with Volkswagen, exceeding around 40% the allowed values, which according to EPA standard are: A level of 9 PPM (part per million) during an averaging time of 8 hours; and a level of 35 ppm during 1 hour. Therefore, it was impossible to let pass the issue. Chrysler became responsible for this issue and modified circa of 100,000 diesel vehicles and recalled many vehicles in order to align with EPA regulations. On the other hand, despite the issue caused by a failure software, Chrysler still following its environmental responsibility and taking measures in order to reach to appropriate