Ian Harnett, JLR director of human resources and purchasing, said: "These awards recognise the role that our supply chain plays in meeting our business objectives and celebrate the achievements of companies that have excelled on quality, delivery, cost and absolute certainty of supply. We are also saying a special thank you to those supplier facilities that have shown "Above and Beyond" flexibility, or have worked quickly to meet production or design challenges."
Ten trophies were presented for performance in 2014: two gold, four silver and four bronze. The awards went to individual plants or facilities, rewarding on-time delivery, continuous quality, accreditation to international and Jaguar Land Rover standards and flexibility to meet the company's developing needs.
Jaguar Land Rover chose to award individual supplier locations, rather than overall groups, in recognition of the importance of a close working relationship with each facility, founded on principles of integrity, honesty and trust. As a reflection of its approach to supplier relations, Jaguar Land Rover was named most trustworthy OEM in a recent study conducted by global information and analytics provider, IHS Automotive.
Over the past five years, JLR has doubled sales and employment, tripled turnover, and invested over £10 billion in new product creation and capital expenditure. In 2014 it opened its first major overseas manufacturing site in China and laid the foundation stone for its new Brazilian plant, which will open next year. The company's innovation is continuous, with 50 major new and model-year upgrade product launches planned for the next five years, offering increased opportunity for its supply base.
UK winners of the JLR 2015 Supplier Excellence Awards were:
Silver
- ZF Lemforder UK at Solihull (corner assemblies, including suspension, driveshaft and brake assemblies for many Land Rover models).
Bronze
- Denso Manufacturing UK, Telford plant (heating, ventilation and air conditioning units for the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport vehicles as well as the latest range of Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles from our lightweight aluminium architecture).
- Benteler Automotive UK at Corby (part of the Benteler International Group, the Corby site supplies steel sub-frames, control arms and selected chassis components).
