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Automotive News Europe, December, 2004 by Saint-Seine, Sylviane de
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Byline: Sylviane de Saint-Seine
PSA/Peugeot-Citroen is embarking on a three-year plan to improve the quality of components it gets from its suppliers.
"We are not satisfied with the quality of our suppliers," said Jean-Philippe Collin, the group's new purchasing chief, in an interview here.
"Bad quality costs us a huge amount of money and that has got to change."
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PSA wants its three-year plan to reduce the overall rate of faulty parts (usually measured in parts per million or PPM) by 25 percent every six months through the end of 2007. ...
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