TecTalk - Automotive Aftermarket Podcast: Recent Episodes
Christian Müller - VP Marketing at TecAlliance
Discussing all the hot topics with the leading minds of the International Automotive Aftermarket to basically answer the question “Were to next for the industry?”
We'll be talking about the Italian Aftermarket & the differences to other markets in Europe, developing value-add services for workshops, the role of digitisation, the ongoing electrification of the car park and the effects on a lubricant distributor.
We are taking a bit of a birs's eye view with Frank Schlehuber from CLEPA today - The European Association of Automotive Suppliers. We talked about electrification and the latest study conducted by CLEPA in cooperation with Roland Berger. The importance of circular economy with electric vehicles, the current state of invehicle data, that sustainability will be a competitive KPI for manufacturers in the future and his view on big e-commerce players stepping into the aftermarket.
Marco is one of the biggest advocates of increasing the data quality in the market. So he is highly knowledgable in all things data related. He has also a global perspective on the topic because he's very experienced in working the emerging markets. We also discussed the timing & availability of data, global differences especially in China, what the electrification means for a brake manufacturer and how TMD Friction is going to tackle the e-commerce topic.
In this episode we are diving deep into the International Trading Group Business with our guest Robert Stevens, Director Workshop Networks and Technology at GROUPAUTO International. David really is an aftermarket veteran with experience along the whole value chain. We've been talking about the latest expansions of GroupAuto especially South-Africa, the state of telematics data, why e-commerce is more about additional services than pricing and about the fact that changes in the market always happen more slowly than we initially expect.
We start the first season of TecTalk with quite a big topic: Sustainability – or more precisely Circular-Economy. Maria Bonelli and her company C-ECO are one of the biggest experts in the field. They are kind of hidden sustainability champions & mostly known for their core management service brand Coreman-Net. We discussed the challenges that come with the electrification of the car park, why companies must now invest into the sustainability topic, what role publicly funded projects play for C-ECO and how the whole topic will get even more drive with a new generation of leaders stepping into the market.
Christian is giving a quick introduction of what TecTalk is about and what to expect from the first season of our new Automotive Aftermarket Podcast.