"Despite the industry challenges we are all facing, Ford is making steady progress identifying more suppliers for long-term relationships while at the same time reducing our total number of suppliers," said Tony Brown, group vice president, Global Purchasing. "Both of these elements were part of our ABF strategy since it was launched in 2005. They are even more critical now as the auto industry moves through a difficult restructuring period toward a more sustainable business model for suppliers and automakers alike."
Overall, the company plans to expand the supplier network to up to 750 global suppliers, with Ford accelerating its supplier consolidation plans, as it mentioned in the release.
"ABF is enabling suppliers to benefit from the ONE Ford strategy that is driving efficiency and commonality across the company," Brown said. "I also attribute Ford's improvements in recent external supplier survey results to the implementation of ABF principles throughout our organization. We still have work to do before we are the customer of choice for all of our suppliers. But I'm confident that by following ABF, Ford will continue to improve our standing with our supply base."
Here is the list of ABF suppliers added since August 2008:
- BorgWarner Inc.
- Bruhl
- Diamond Electric Manufacturing
- Denso Corp.
- Emcon Technologies
- Faurecia
- Federal Express
- Nemak
- Kolbenschmidt Pierburg AG
- Piston Automotive
- Rieter Holding AG
- Saturn Electronics & Engineering
- Team Detroit
- Trelleborg AB
- Uniworld Group
- Zubi Advertising
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