Ministry of Industry and Trade and Samsung Vietnam cooperate to train 200 consultants in the supporting industry

On April 17, Samsung Vietnam collaborated with the Ministry of Industry and Trade to organize the Opening Ceremony of the consultant training program on Production and Quality Improvement.

Attending the opening ceremony, on the side of the Vietnamese Government were Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung, Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh, leaders of the Industry Department and related units of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. For Samsung Vietnam, there are Mr. Shim Won Hwan – General Director of Samsung Vietnam and senior leaders of Samsung Vietnam.

The objective of the program is to train 200 Vietnamese consultants who are competent to provide advice and retraining to Vietnamese enterprises in the supporting industry in Vietnam, thereby helping these businesses enhance competitiveness to participate in global supply chains.

The training program will last for 2 years from 2018 to 2019 with 8 courses, each course lasts 12 weeks including 4 weeks for theoretical training and 8 weeks for practical training in domestic enterprises. Each year, the program will train 100 skilled consultants with a highly successful consulting process, including: Assessing the performance and business status of Vietnamese supporting enterprises; Consulting on production innovation, quality management and goods circulation through maintaining working environment and improving productivity; Improve production facilities such as quality and circulation of goods.

Currently, supporting industry is one of the areas of great concern and attention of the Government of Vietnam. The system of legal normative documents in this field has been formed and improved, policies to support supporting industry development and preferential policies for supporting industries are also being implemented.

However, the current competitiveness of enterprises supplying parts and accessories in Vietnam is still weak, the number of enterprises meeting the strict requirements of quality and deeply participating in the global supply chain of multinational corporations including Samsung are limited. In order to improve the competitiveness of enterprises, enabling Vietnamese enterprises to participate in global supply chains, the quality improvement of consultants in Vietnam is one of the key factors.

In parallel with the training program for Vietnamese core specialists, Samsung Vietnam continues to implement innovative consulting programs for potential Vietnamese businesses undertaken by Korean experts. After three months of consulting, businesses reported significant results in production reforms and competitiveness enhancement.

By the end of 2018, it is expected that 38 Vietnamese enterprises will be consulted in this program, including 4 businesses that were consulted in 2015, 10 businesses in 2016, 12 businesses in 2017 and it is expected that 12 businesses will be consulted in 2018.

With the commitment to join hands to develop Vietnam’s supporting industry and efforts to find and connect with Vietnamese suppliers, the number of Vietnamese enterprises which is Samsung’s first-class supplier strongly increased from 4 enterprises in 2014 to 29 enterprises in 2017, with expected to reach 50 businesses in 2020.

These enterprises are currently participating in supply chains for Samsung’s factories in Vietnam, including Samsung Electronics Vietnam (SEV), Samsung Electronics Vietnam Thai Nguyen (SEVT), SEHC Complex (in Ho Chi Minh City), Samsung Display Vietnam (Bac Ninh province), Samsung SDI Vietnam (Bac Ninh province) and Samsung Electric Electro -Mechanics of Vietnam (Thai Nguyen province).

Productivity and Quality Office