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54 December 2018 | AutoData SUPPLIERS » RECOGNITION I n November, General Motors awarded 65 suppliers from the Mercosur Region, considered the best in 2017 via Supplier Quality Excellence Award, regional re- cognition since 2012 According to Manoel Rego, director of quality engineering and supplier develo- pment for South America, the level for the award is increasingly higher: “We have measured thirteen criteria that involve quality and performance. The winners have quality control tools in the production process and didn’t report any type of failure. Our expectation is that the By Caio Bednarski Raising the level The manufacturer recognizes the best Brazilian suppliers: none of the 65 awardees have registered failure in the last year. PARTY HALL General Motors realized an award celebration to its best suppliers in Mercosur during the Salão do Automóvel de São Paulo, in November list of winners will be even bigger in the next edition”. The number of awarded suppliers was the same as the last edition, but it has to be considered that the company reduced its supplier base from 430 in 2016 to approxi- mately 350 in 2017. Rego justifies that GM is concentrating its business in a smaller group of suppliers seeking more global companies for gains in productivity scale. As a metric, GM has not used PPM for some years. The PRR is adopted in its pla- ce, which is not an index like the PPM but a questioning register of any of the factories Disclousure/GM