{"id":11366,"date":"2017-04-18T14:01:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T14:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/old\/\/?p=11366"},"modified":"2017-04-18T14:01:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T14:01:12","slug":"kuka-systems-gm-supplier-year-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/kuka-systems-gm-supplier-year-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"KUKA Systems as GM Supplier of the Year 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KUKA Systems was named a GM Supplier of the Year for Powertrain &amp; Body Shop Equipment by General Motors during its 25th annual Supplier of the Year awards ceremony held Friday, March 31 in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>General Motors recognized 118 of its best suppliers from 15 countries that have consistently exceeded GM\u2019s expectations,\u00a0<strong>created outstanding value or brought new innovations<\/strong>\u00a0to the company. The announcement represented the most suppliers GM has recognized since debuting the Supplier of the Year event in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are focused on building positive supplier relationships, bringing new, customer-centric innovations to GM and being the OEM of choice among suppliers,\u201d said Steve Kiefer, GM vice president, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain. \u201cThe companies we recognize tonight not only have brought\u00a0<strong>innovation<\/strong>, they\u00a0<strong>delivered it with the quality our customers deserve<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11368\" style=\"width: 767px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11368 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/GM_Supplier_of_the_year_2016_KUKA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"767\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/GM_Supplier_of_the_year_2016_KUKA.jpg 767w, https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/GM_Supplier_of_the_year_2016_KUKA-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KUKA is proud to be part of GM best suppliers. (f.l. Dr. Till Reuter (CEO KUKA AG), Larence L. Drake (CEO KUKA North America), Dave Drouillard (GM Executive Director, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain) and Kathy Worthen, GM Vice President GPSC Europe))<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More than half of the suppliers are repeat winners from 2015<\/p>\n<p>Winning suppliers were chosen by a global team of GM purchasing, engineering, quality, manufacturing and logistics executives and selected based on performance criteria in Product Purchasing, Indirect Purchasing, Customer Care and Aftersales, and Logistics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe award acknowledges\u00a0<strong>GM\u2019s most important suppliers in 2016<\/strong>. Given our long-standing, reliable business relationship with General Motors, we are extremely proud that our exceptional performance has been honored in this way by our customer. Especially it is a remarkable celebration and KUKA is part of it\u201d, says Lawrence A. Drake, CEO of KUKA Systems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUKA Systems was named a GM Supplier of the Year for Powertrain &amp; Body Shop Equipment by General Motors during its 25th annual Supplier of the Year awards ceremony held Friday, March 31 in Orlando, Florida. General Motors recognized 118 of its best suppliers from 15 countries that have consistently exceeded GM\u2019s expectations,\u00a0created outstanding value [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[863],"class_list":["post-11366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-mfg","tag-kuka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}