Construction Equipment
Asia
To enhance the commitment to boosting dealer competence and understanding the latest products, over 100 participants, including 60 dealer participants from across the Asia region and 40 participants from Changwon, came together in July. There were meaningful discussions on new technology and presentations on product updates.
The event included presentations and interactive discussions from senior Volvo CE executives: Andrew Knight, Head of Excavator Operations and Korea; Hojin Kang, Head of Product Planning EXC, Crawler, Mid- & Large; Jaetack Lim, Head of Market Korea; Gerard Lim, Head of Uptime and Parts Region Asia, with other representatives from different functions. Discussions covered a broad range of topics, including product quality updates, introduction to electromobility and associated safety requirements, functional updates from UPP Excavator Uptime and Quality team, product challenges and how to move forward to handle them, and best practices sharing.
In addition, the Head of Uptime & Parts and Head of Product Support from Region Asia, Region China and Region India participated in a joint meeting with UPP Excavator Uptime & Quality team, Excavator Continuous Improvement team and UPP Parts Engineering team as part of an extended Sales Asia Technical Support network to explore enhancing collaboration across the various organisations in Asia.
Karthikeyan, Head of Product Support Region Asia, said: “This event was critical to boosting dealer confidence and understanding product offerings. Volvo CE is committed to supporting our valued dealers to help them achieve the best results when talking to customers. I would like to sincerely thank our dealers and everyone who made the event such a success. We look forward to hosting similar events to further our regional growth.”
Cultivating dealer competence is vital to serving our customers better and increasing service revenue, which is necessary to reach Volvo CE 2030 ambition. Events like these are crucial to our proactive approach to reinforcing Volvo’s values and promoting our service solutions to customers.