Quality Management Throughout the Value-Added ChainQuality Management Agreement • February 18th, 2008
After intensive discussions between automotive manufacturers and suppliers in the VDA (German Association of the Automotive Industry) managing board, an agreement for the safeguarding of joint quality in the German auto- motive industry was developed in 2005. Through a stronger process-orientation and synchronisation of the supply chain, the German automotive manufacturers and suppliers were able to recapture their quality leadership.