Abstract

Automotive sector is one of the biggest emergent industries in the latest years; known by its highly competitive environment and to be able to keep good position in the market firms working in this sector are no longer considering quality of service as an advantage but a necessity.

The advantage now is to reduce all related costs to the product and provide new technologies. To ensure this; firms need to control all composite of the supply chain and encourage Research and development.

In this paper we will propose way to optimize upstream supply chain for supplier of 1st rank in automotive industry by monitoring al it’s composite, correct week ones and provide ability to react on time

The paper contains five parts, first one presents a literature revue of professional research evaluated performance of automotive industry. The second part explain the problematic and research methodology; the third one propose a Key performance Indicator to follow upstream logistic. the fourth one provide impact of using this method on monitoring upstream logistic and react on time to not be the week composite on the overall performance of the supply chain .we end by a conclusion and  perspectives of this work.