GM honors top global suppliers for innovation and performance | Automotive World
General Motors recognized its most innovative partners during a virtual ceremony to celebrate its 28th annual Supplier of the Year awards on June 24, 2020. Recipients of the Supplier of the Year award included 116 suppliers from 15 countries, with 13 first-time winners, as well as eight companies who earned GM’s Innovation and Overdrive Awards.
GM’s Supplier of the Year award is reserved for suppliers that distinguish themselves by going above and beyond GM’s requirements, providing customers with the most innovative technologies and highest quality in the automotive industry.
The awards ceremony was originally scheduled as a live event to be held in March, but was postponed due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The recognition is for supplier performance in the 2019 calendar year. Five of the award-winning suppliers were minority-owned enterprises.
GM was the first automotive OEM to establish a supplier diversity program in 1968. Based on the last eight years, GM has averaged $3.6 billion in Tier 1 spend with minority suppliers.
“Our suppliers play a key role in delivering the products, services and experiences our customers deserve – and these award-winning suppliers went above and beyond our expectations,” said Shilpan Amin, GM vice president, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain.
“We also believe it’s important at this point in time to thank our entire supply base for their efforts the last few months to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19,” added Amin. “Not only have we been able to safely restart our manufacturing operations, our suppliers played a key role in assisting our initiatives to increase the supply of ventilators and personal protective equipment for frontline healthcare workers to help save lives and keep communities safe.”
Innovation Awards:
LG Display / LG Electronics, Magna Seating, Shape Corp. and Strattec Security Corporation won Innovation Awards for delivering cutting-edge technologies that substantially enhance vehicle capabilities and/or the customer experience.
LG Display / LG Electronics was recognized for its P-OLED technology on the 2021 Cadillac Escalade, which marked the first-ever use of a curved OLED display in a production vehicle. The three curved screens make up the instrument panel cluster for displaying basic vehicle-related information and an integrated center stack that serves as an infotainment display for audio, video and navigation content.
Magna Seating distinguished itself by envisioning the car seat of the future with its Freeform seat design. For GM customers, this provides rear-seat passengers with a sculpted, wrinkle-free design and increased comfort and knee room.
Shape Corp. was honored for engineering and manufacturing the automotive industry’s first curved, multi-hollow pultruded carbon fiber bumper beam for the 2020 Corvette Stingray. The bumper’s properties provide a lightweight design needed to help the Corvette meet its weight requirements.
Strattec Security Corporation differentiated itself with its new Invis-A-Rise power tailgate technology on the Chevrolet Silverado pickup. This feature allows users to automatically open, close and latch the vehicle’s tailgate with the push of a button.
Overdrive Awards:
GM also honored four companies — BASF, FreightVerify, Linamar and Morley — with its Overdrive Award. The award, first given in 2012, recognizes supply partners for extraordinary leadership in cultural change and commitment initiatives that drive exceptional business results for GM.
The Supplier of the Year, Overdrive and Innovation award winners were chosen by a global team of GM purchasing, engineering, quality, manufacturing and logistics executives. Winners were selected based on performance criteria in Product Purchasing, Global Purchasing and Manufacturing Services, Customer Care and Aftersales, and Logistics.
General Motors’ 2019 Supplier of the Year award winners include:
| American Axle & Manufacturing | Shanghai Daimay Automotive Interior Co. Ltd. | Innolux Corporation | NIDEC MOBILITY CORPORATION |
| ABC Technologies | Dana Incorporated | Inteva Products | Pilkington Automotive Limited (NSG Group) |
| Active Aero Group | Day & Ross | Iroquois Industries Inc. | Plastic Omnium |
| Advanced Composites | Dell Technologies | Jack Morton Worldwide | PREH |
| AK Steel Corporation | DENSO International America, Inc. | JATCO Ltd. | Rassini |
| Alpine Electronics | DTR Automotive Corporation | JPC Automotive Co., Ltd. | Ryobi Die Casting |
| Aludyne | DY AUTO CORPORATION | Korea Autoglass Corporation | S&T Motiv Co., Ltd. |
| Android Industries | Dynamic Manufacturing, Inc. | Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. | Schaeffler |
| AGI | ExxonMobil Fuels and Lubricants | KM&I Co., Ltd. | Shannon Precision Fastener |
| Attentive Industries, Inc. | FANUC CORPORATION | KUKA Systems North America | SHB |
| AUSTEM Co., Ltd | Faurecia | KWANGJIN | SKF |
| Barton Malow | FedEx Corporation | Lear Corporation | SL Corporation |
| BASF | Flex-N-Gate Corporation | Linamar | SMR Automotive |
| Black Horse Carriers | FUYAO GLASS | Lizhong Wheel Manufacturing | SOGEFI |
| BorgWarner Transmission Systems | GALLAGHER-KAISER CORPORATION | Questum Maquinados una empresa de Grupo Quimmco | Spartan Light Metal Products |
| Robert Bosch LLC | Gentex Corporation | Magna International | Summit Polymers, Inc. |
| Brake Parts Inc. | Gentherm | MANN+HUMMEL GmbH | Sundram Fasteners Limited (Powertrain Components Division) |
| Brazul – Grupo SADA Corp. | The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company | Martin Transportation Systems | SUNGWOO HITECH CO., LTD. |
| Bridgestone Corporation | GP Strategies | MAXXIS | Tegma S/A |
| Brose | Bocar Group | Michelin | TENNECO POWERTRAIN |
| Buehler Motor | Guangdong Hongtu Nantong Die-casting | MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER | US FARATHANE |
| Chunil Cargo Transportation Co., Ltd. | Hankook Tire and Technology | MNP Corporation | Veoneer |
| CITIC Dicastal Co. | Hanon Systems | Mubea | Vuteq Corporation |
| Comau | HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA | Multimatic | The Walbridge Group Inc. |
| Commonwealth//McCann | HIROTEC AMERICA, Inc. | SM Namsun Aluminum Automotive Parts | Weber Shandwick |
| Continental Tire | HIROTECH MEXICO | Nemak | WOOSHIN SAFETY SYSTEMS CO., LTD |
| Cooper Standard | Hyundai Mobis | Nexteer Automotive | Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean |
| Czarnowski Display Services | IDEAL CONTRACTING LLC | NS AUTOTECH CO., LTD. | XPO Logistics Managed Transportation |
| DAEWON KANG UP CO., LTD | ILJIN Global | Nucor | Yazaki North America |