Global Best Practices Statistical Yearbook 2008

Abstract

Following significant developments year on year, Global Best Practices Statistical Yearbook is now in its 5th Edition, and has become the foremost annual scientific analysis of automotive supplier competitiveness worldwide.

It remains a definitive guide to automotive supplier manufacturing best practice, and a unique opportunity to compare your company' s performance against it.

The Global Best Practices Statistical Yearbook can help you answer questions such as:

• 1. Are we meeting the demanding and rapidly changing standards of the global automotive industry?
• 2. Using an objective firm-level benchmarking assessment, how competitive are we really?
• 3. Do we know what defines global best practice standards in the various aspects of our operations? And if so, do we meet them?
• 4. In which areas do we excel and/or fail, and where should we be focusing our attention to improve?
• 5. Does our ownership, geographical location, size or market focus influence our performance? If so, how do we compare against firms that fall into our specific profile categories?´
• 6. Finally, are our measurement systems sufficiently rigorous? Do we measure all the competitiveness variables we should? If not, which measures are particularly pertinent to us and how can we begin measuring them?

Created with participation from companies such as Becker, DaimlerChrysler, Dana, Delphi, Faurecia, Federal Mogul, GM, Lear, Timken, Toyota, Visteon, Denso, Dunlop and ZF Lemförder, it consists of six sections of firm-level statistical data, grouped under six market driver indicators:

• 1. Cost control
• 2. Quality performance
• 3. Value chain flexibility
• 4. Value chain reliability
• 5. Human resource development
• 6. Product development

Fifth edition changes and improvements

Reacting to customer demand, the fifth edition significantly improves coverage in several key areas, particularly:

• Improved global orientation: Benchmark data coverage of the Americas, North America in particular, has significantly increased, representing a major step forward for the yearbook' s global market relevance.
• Performance analysis by ownership status, enabling users to compare performance differences between multinationals and independent operations for the first time.
• In addition to these major changes in its content and structure, this 5th edition of the Yearbook builds on previous edition changes, with improved methodology, more detailed sub-sector information, and further developed best practice performance assessments.
• The Global Best Practices Statistical Yearbook remains a definitive guide to automotive supplier manufacturing best practice, and a unique opportunity to compare your company' s performance against it.