Continental Automotive Group - „Supplier of the Year 2010“
Continental Presents its Automotive "Supplier of the Year 2010" Award to 14 Companies. Continental Automotive Group recognizes the outstanding achievements of its suppliers.
Quality and innovativeness are the key to market success
Quality and innovativeness are the key to market success
Frankfurt, 22. Juli 2011. Continental Automotive Group has presented its Automotive Supplier of the Year 2010 Award to 14 of its suppliers. The prize recognizes the best of the global company's more than 900 strategic suppliers. At yesterday's International Purchasing Manager Meeting in Frankfurt, which was attended by around 140 buyers from Continental Automotive from all over the world, the Chairman of the Continental Executive Board, Dr. Elmar Degenhart, emphasized
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how important top-class partners were to a leading global automotive supplier such as Continental: "High manufacturing quality, outstanding delivery reliability, innovativeness, and technological excellence at competitive prices are the challenges that we and our suppliers face every day", said Degenhart. The Automotive Group encompasses the Chassis & Safety, Powertrain, and Interior divisions. |
Fourteen awards for suppliers
The winners of the Automotive Supplier of the Year 2010 Award were selected after evaluating the data of the 900 largest Continental Automotive suppliers worldwide using defined criteria in the quality, technology, logistics, costs, and conditions of purchase categories. The individual prizes were awarded in various material categories
The electronics awards went to Murata Manufacturing (passive components), Infineon (Semiconductors, Switches, Control units), Nichia (Multimedia Opto), Panasonic (Customized Motors), and Omron (Relays). Futaba (Displays) and NGK Spark Plugs (Engine System Components) also received awards
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The winners in the mechanics category were Alupress (Housing, Casting), EJOT (Fasteners), Erdrich Umformtechnik (Stamping), VCST Reichenbach, and NISSHINBO (Aluminum Extrusion). In the manufacturing category, Sonplas won an award for Production Equipment and Bertrandt for Engineering Services. |
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Quality is the key to success
For the first time a special price was presented in addition, the “Quality Award 2010”. It went to the passive components manufacturer Murata Manufacturing in recognition of its outstanding efforts to improve quality.
The quality of the over nine billion parts that Continental receives from its suppliers every month plays a key role in helping the Automotive Group achieve its goals in the global marketplace. The Group had purchased raw materials, components, and development support from over 4,000 suppliers around the world worth a total of €9.5 billion this year. A quarter of the purchasing volume relates to electronics, a proportion that will continue to rise strongly over the coming years.
Continental Automotive's head of purchasing, Günter Fella emphasized the high standard of quality that Continental sets for its products, and appealed to the suppliers to do their best to support the company in achieving these quality aims: on the one hand by playing an active role in Continental's development projects, on the other by striving to ensure reliability within their own organizations in terms of product quality and delivery quantities.
