Suppliers, already juggling higher costs and choppy vehicle assembly schedules, need more insight into automakers' long-term electrification plans so they can create efficient strategies of their own, according to the annual study.
Suppliers, already juggling higher costs and choppy vehicle assembly schedules, want more insight into automakers' long-term electrification plans so they can create efficient strategies of their own, according to Plante Moran's survey of automaker-supplier relationships.
The annual survey yields a ranking of those automakers based on a point system of multiple issues concerning how their suppliers perceive business dealings with their purchasing departments. Among them: whether automaker purchasing officials communicate in a timely fashion and whether suppliers feel they are given an opportunity to make a profit.
"When they went to the Model e and Ford Blue, suppliers, rightly or wrongly, were confused by how they should interpret that," Andrea told sibling publication Automotive News."That means if they weren't pegged for Model e business, they were wondering if that meant they're being completely dis-sourced."
"Even though there's still tremendous uncertainty, there is certainly more clarity there now," he said. "The thing we'll be watching is if they can put together two years of improvement back-to-back, to try to get more momentum on communication," Andrea said.
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