Very much and welcome back from lunch. If those who are in the exhibit hall, if you could begin to move back, we would greatly appreciate it. I want to give a special thanks to Northrup Grumman. So Jennifer Walsmith and chris valentino, i know, are here. If you could raise your hands . Jennifer is here and chris from Northrup Grumman, i want to give a special thanks to them for this lunch sponsorship. I also want to applause applause thank them for their seven years of sponsorship and support which has been greatly, really a key reason for us being able to host this forum with the government, military and to be able to do this now for the tenth year. So thank you very much. I want to just also point, give to your anticipation, please, on your seats are fliers that describe the next years event, september 8th and 9th at the Marriott Wardman park. So that will be september 8th and 9th, 2020. We also have Corporate Executives that are interested, we have a series of quarterly Leadership C
A special thanks to them for this lunch sponsorship. [applause] i also want to thank them for their seven years of sponsorship and support which has been greatly, really a key reason for us being able to host this forum with the government, military and to be able to do this now for the tenth year. So thank you very much. I want to just also point, give to your anticipation, please, on your seats are fliers that describe the next years event, september 8th and 9th at the Marriott Wardman park. So that will be september 8th and 9th, 2020. We also have Corporate Executives that are interested, we have a series of quarterly Leadership Council meetings. Were in the third year of that. If you look at the flipside, youll see the corporate members include cisco, aws, booz allen hamilton, raytheon, hp, northrup, google cloud. If youre interested in that, please let us know. Id also like to recognize and express our appreciation for the Advisory Board members. Ill list those once again as theyv
Well also hear from the defense departments Deputy Principal cyber adviser. This is just under an hour. [applause] well, thank you very much and welcome back from lunch. If those who are in the exhibit hall, if you could begin to move back, we would greatly appreciate it. I want to give a special thanks to Northrup Grumman. So Jennifer Walsmith and chris valentino, i know, are here. If you could raise your hands . Jennifer is here and chris from Northrup Grumman, i want to give a special thanks to them for this lunch sponsorship. [applause] i also want to thank them for their seven years of sponsorship and support which has been greatly, really a key reason for us being able to host this forum with the government, military and to be able to do this now for the tenth year. So thank you very much. I want to just also point, give to your anticipation, please, on your seats are fliers that describe the next years event, september 8th and 9th at the Marriott Wardman park. So that will be se
st annual North American Automotive OEM - Supplier Working Relations Index
® (WRI
®) Study released today by Plante Moran show that in spite of the serious challenges facing automakers and their suppliers this past year, four of the six major U.S. and Japanese automakers improved their scores. Two automakers worsened.
The 2021 NA Automotive OEM Buyer – Supplier Working Relations Index shows Toyota and Honda remaining in first and second place overall, with General Motors and Nissan improving significantly, and Ford and FCA/Stellantis dropping significantly.
New this year is a scoring of the six automakers’ purchasing organizations “effectiveness,” that is, how quickly various issues are resolved between the automaker and supplier or their “throughput.” In this ranking, Honda was the top scorer, with Toyota a close second. The others followed the 2021 rankings.