John Henke is a 1958 Notre Dame High School graduate.
John W. Henke, Jr., Ph.D., a 1958 graduate of Notre Dame, says Ford, General Motors, FCA US and Nissan collectively would have earned $2 billion more in operating profit last year had their supplier relations improved as much as Toyota’s and Honda’s did during the year.
That’s one of the significant conclusions from Henke’s 15th annual North American Automotive/Tier 1 Supplier Working Relations Index® Study released by Birmingham, Mich.-based Planning Perspectives, Inc., that looks at the automakers’ supplier relations and how they impact OEM profits. This year, 435 suppliers participated.
The study is watched carefully in automakers’ boardrooms because an OEM’s supplier relations rating is highly correlated to the benefits that a supplier chooses to give an OEM – including which OEM is first to see a supplier’s newest technology, is provided a supplier’s best personnel for support, and gets their best pricing – all of which impacts an OEM’s competitiveness and operating profit.
For the past 25 years, Henke, who is CEO of Planning Perspectives (www.ppi1.com), and his team have specialized in studying and reporting on buyer and supplier relations in the automotive and 17 other industries. Henke is also a professor of marketing at Oakland University, Rochester, Mich., and a research fellow at the Center for Supply Chain Management at Rutgers University.
For more on Henke’s 2015 study, click here.
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