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The Global Best Practices Statistical Yearbook, now in its 8th Edition, is the foremost scientific analysis of automotive supplier competitiveness.

The yearbook is an invaluable tool for managers who need to better understand their performance in relation to international best practice. It covers the entire value chain, including inventory control, internal and external quality performance, operational reliability and flexibility, human resource development and product innovation.

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

1. Are we meeting the rapidly changing standards of the global automotive industry?
2. How competitive are our operations?
3. Do we know what defines global best practice standards for our operations, and do we meet them?
4. In which areas do we excel and/or fail?
5. What cost do we transfer on to customers as a result of our operational deficiencies?
6. Does ownership, geographical location, firm-size, or market-focus really matter in respect of performance standards? 
7. Do we measure properly? If not, which measures apply particularly to us and how can we begin measuring them?

Created with participation from companies such as Becker, DaimlerChrysler, Dana, 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

Detailed 8th edition changes and improvements

The 8th edition significantly improves coverage in several key areas: 

1. Ease of use: Based on feedback from customers, data presentation has been substantially simplified and consolidated into one clear, concise section that displays both aggregated and disaggregated data.
2. Database size: The dataset contains 358 firms for the 8th edition
3. Waste (previously cost) performance benchmark: An average and upper quartile waste benchmark performance assessment is included for each of the categories of firms assessed. In previous editions, the analysis considered costs as a percentage of sales. The analysis has been further developed and, in this edition, waste is represented as a percentage of Manufacturing Value Addition (MVA). This is considered a more accurate measure for manufacturing firms when considering their unnecessary costs or waste levels.
4. Market driver analysis of performance: The Yearbook now contains a concise analysis of the most pertinent competitiveness issues that emerge for each market driver covered. This should assist firms to identify the key challenges that are likely to be impacting on them for each area covered as a result of their operating profile.
5. Global automotive industry developments:  Analysis of the latest trends, developments and forecasts of the automotive industry at a global level is included as an appendix. The relevance of the yearbook is made explicit in the appendix, with the difficulties being experienced by the automotive assembly and components industry clearly described