Resumo (EN)
An automobile sector has been object of diverse studies, either in Engineering or the Administration. The increasing competitiveness compelled the companies to search new forms of relations in the Supply Chain. With the increasing competitiveness in the automobile market and its search for improvement in the productive pointers, the companies tum over obliged to review its forms of supply relations and to redimension its industrial arrangements. To identify to the form of this relationship and its results in the productivity pointers and flexible production is the objective of this work. To reach it, a research boarding in the Volkswagen Resende RJ, Ford Camaçari BA and GM Gravataí RS. As general conclusion, it is had that such arrangements aim at reduction of costs, improvement of productivity and nip of relations in the supply chain.
