The Renault-Nissan Alliance is strengthening synergies in four core divisions and launching new "convergence" projects to boost efficiency and revenue.

Convergence includes integrating divisions, creating common processes, exchanging talent and other significant sharing of resources. Convergence helped Renault and Nissan generate more than EUR4bn in annualised synergies in calendar-year 2015, the automakers claimed.

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During a convention of top Alliance executives globally, Renault-Nissan announced it is strengthening synergies in engineering, manufacturing engineering and supply chain management, purchasing, and human resources. These functions converged in 2014 and already have Alliance executives managing the units.

The Alliance also plans to partly converge quality and costing to support the original four converged functions. The Alliance will study other opportunities to increase synergies in sales and marketing, connectivity and connected services, product planning, aftersales and other support functions.

Through the end of March, Renault and Nissan executives will present these convergence projects to appropriate employee representation and corporate decision-making bodies. If approved at the end of an internal review process, implementation will begin 1 April.

Managers in these new functions and the scope of their converged activities will be announced at that time.

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Renault and Nissan share an industrial footprint with numerous cross-manufacturing projects in France, South Korea, India and Russia. In addition, engineers at Renault and Nissan – which have a combined annual R&D and capital expenditure fund of EUR10 billion – work together as one team to reduce duplication in the development of next-generation technologies.

The Alliance aims to generate EUR5.5bn in synergies in 2018.

"The auto industry is rapidly evolving, requiring Renault and Nissan to leverage the Alliance as a pragmatic business tool," said CEO and chairman
Carlos Ghosn. "The road ahead is one of more convergence, working more closely together."