NISSAN Sunderland - offices.
Although the plant is made up primarily of manufacturing areas, there is also a
large office complex, housing supporting functions including: Personnel,
Community Relations, Production Control, Engineering, Finance, Purchasing and
Information Systems. Some of these support functions, including Purchasing,
Finance and Information Systems are not just responsible for NMUK but for Nissan
Europe as well. During a company restructuring exercise in 2003, large parts of
the Purchasing department were relocated to Cranfield. This angered many in the
plant, but widespread industrial action was avoided. In 2005, parts of the
Finance department were relocated to Budapest in Hungary. In both instances,
NMUK adopted a policy of finding new jobs in other departments for those who did
not want to relocate.