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Taylor: Mercedes, suppliers are 1 team.

Publication: Automotive News
Publication Date: 14-MAY-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Taylor: Mercedes, suppliers are 1 team.(New American Manufacturers)(dialogue with Bill Taylor of Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Inc.)(Interview)

Article Excerpt
Byline: April Wortham

When 80 percent of the value of every vehicle that rolls off your assembly line comes from suppliers, you'd better have a good working relationship with them. Bill Taylor, CEO of Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Inc., knows it.

Taylor, 57, who came to Mercedes as vice president of production in 1993 when the Vance, Ala., plant was a glimmer in Stuttgart's eye, has watched the relationship with suppliers evolve into a "one-team approach.'' As the last remaining member of the Alabama plant's original executive team, Taylor understands that...

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