汽车“新”闻9大招牌菜

通用与供应商：剪不断理还乱

    《通用CEO：我们正在修补与供应商的关系》——《汽车新闻》，2011年10月24日

    这则关于通用CEO丹•阿克森（上图）的消息实际上是去年的一则旧闻，但我相信它很快就会再次见诸报端。通用剥削供应商的历史很久远了。经济不景气时，它拼命挤压供应商，等到经济好转了也不撒手。上世纪90年代初，时任通用采购主管的艾纳吉•洛佩斯曾公开鼓励供应商互相压价，我认为这大概是通用与供应商关系的史上最低点了。不过2005年的一项调查宣称，2005才是15年来通用与供应商关系的最低点。像所有的惯犯一样，通用总是保证它会做得更好。两年多以前，通用的一位高管曾承诺公司将“加快速度”改善与供应商的关系。现在又是CEO丹•阿克森出面声明。通用能不能说到做到，我们走着瞧。

    译者：朴成奎

Frenemies forever

    "Akerson: GM's mending supplier relations" --Automotive News 10/24/11

    This one about GM CEO Dan Akerson (above) actually dates from late last year, but it'll pop back up soon enough. GM has a long history of squeezing suppliers when times are bad, and then not letting up when times are good. I thought relations hit rock-bottom in the early 1990s when then-purchasing chief Inaki Lopez openly encouraged suppliers to bid against each other, but a 2005 survey declared they had reached a 15-year low in that year. Like any recidivist, GM keeps promising to do better. More than two years ago, a top GM executive promised that the automaker would "move the needle" on supplier relationships. Now this latest declaration from CEO Dan Akerson. We'll see.