Activities in Serbia

Senior Volunteer Program – Production Management

Background of the Project:

The Serbian Investment Promotion Agency (SIEPA), as governmental organization, has the mission to support Serbian companies doing business worldwide. As one of the main sectors of SIEPA is export promotion. Since, Serbian products are highly–marketable in various foreign markets because of their excellent quality, utilized highly–skilled labor, and are available at a competitive cost, it is important for Serbia to increase production capacity in export-oriented companies. There is need for companies producing for foreign markets to gain knowledge from the experts in the area of productivity improvement, like assistance in production line, cost reduction, but with production process improvement. The JICA Volunteer is expected to support Serbian companies in improvement of their production methods, and transfer knowledge from the latest production practices. This cooperation would lead to quality improvement, reduce wastefulness, increase productivity and the most important to raise the level of awareness and understanding of the importance of introduction of the new methods in this field. This will result in raising the companies' competitiveness and in generating new business opportunities.

Outline of the project

• Project type: Citizen Participation (Volunteer Program)
• Project objective: Improving foreign market position of Serbian export companies
• Project sites: Belgrade - Entire Serbia
• Duration: September 2012 – September 2013
• Executing Organization: Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SIEPA)
• Outputs:

  1)	Improving of quality, increasing productivity and reducing wastefulness in Serbian export companies.
  2)	Increasing the companies' competitiveness through Kaizen.
  3)	Recommendations for a long-term improvement in production for chosen export-companies.