General description. (7) According to the Hungarian authorities (7), the Investment Project is part of GKN Automotive’s long-term restructuring plan defined in 2019 (the ‘Strategy’). The Strategy aims at safeguarding GKN Automotive's competitiveness in an increasingly competitive market environment by consolidating its inefficient and scattered European production footprint and shifting its production capacity towards more cost-effective locations. GKN Automotive’s manufacturing operations in Europe are spread across more than ten sites, the majority of which are located in Western Europe, in locations with high production costs Furthermore, these sites are largely fragmented and supply each other with intermediate products thereby resulting in inefficiencies through increased transport and stock holding costs.
General description. The OTR GW SOAP service is a data exchange technology available for partners with data supply contract. The basis of the service is the XML-based communication and messaging protocol called SOAP. Security of data traffic on the network is ensured by the SSL protocol layer and application of electronic certificates.