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Oct. 12 - Nov. 15, 2020
Take advantage of SAA's Buy One, Gift One membership offer which expires Nov. 15. Join the SAA or renew your membership and you will receive an additional membership to gift a colleague, vendor, associate, etc. Click here for more details.
Industry Insights Video -- 3rd Quarter 2020
In the latest SAA Industry Insight video, Plante Moran's Dave Andrea provides a great summary of the 2020 North American Automotive OEM-Supplier Working Relations Index® (WRI®) Study. The study is a comprehensive annual survey that examines the working relations between Tier 1 suppliers and their North American-based OEM customers from the suppliers’ perspective.
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The Latest SAA Newsletter
• Webinar: Supplier Strategy Re-Boot: Navigating the Post-COVID Market
• Entries Now Being Accepted for the Mobility Innovations Awards
• Tight Inventories Set the Stage for U.S. Auto Industry Rebound
• U.S. New Car Sales Show Signs of Life in September
• U.S. Auto Sales Fall 9.7% in Q3, But the News Isn’t All Bad
• Save the Date: Next Q’Up Mobility Webinar on October 22
• California’s Ban on New Gas Cars Further Upends Auto Industry
• Plante Moran’s mobility Intelligence is Now Live; Oct. 15 Webinar Will Reveal More Information
• China’s EV Ambitions Put the U.S. Auto Industry At Risk
• As Auto Industry Roars Back, Worker Shortages Throw Up Roadblocks
• Chinese Automakers Show Off Concept Sports Cars, Amid Auto Market Slump
• New SAA Industry Insights Video Summarizes 2020 OEM-Supplier Relations Study
2020 SAA Events
The SAA has a robust line-up of events planned for 2020. Check regularly for updates.
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Automotive COVID-19 Recovery Series Helps Navigate a Path to a “New Normal”
IHS Markit has published three insight pieces providing research and perspectives into how the U.S. new and used vehicle ecosystems have already evolved from their pre-COVID-19 days, and, more importantly, what the more settled post-COVID-19 world, when it does arrive, will look like. These papers help navigate a path to a “new normal” in such unique times.
Read MoreElectrification — Automotive Sector Impact Report
By the early part of the next decade, LMC Automotive expects that more than half of global sales of Passenger Cars (including
North American Light Trucks) will be electrified in one way or another. Get the most up-to-date insights and forecasts on the Powertrain, Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Sector as contained in this latest LMC Impact Report.
Toyota Sweeps Supplier Relations Rankings in Study; is “Most Preferred” Customer
Results of the 20th annual North American Automotive OEM – Supplier Working Relations Index® Study show that of the six major U.S. and Japanese automakers, only Toyota and FCA made any significant improvement in their scores this year.
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New Survey: Aluminum Remains Fastest Growing Automotive Material, Emerging as a Preferred Metal for EVs
The Detroit 3 (FCA, Ford, GM) and their international counterparts and suppliers with manufacturing and assembly in North America have started to return to life this week after a two-month lockdown due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The automakers have redesigned assembly lines and added additional training for autoworkers in an increased effort to avoid additional outbreaks of COVID-19 that could throw off production for a second time.
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Experiences Per Mile Advisory Council Featured on Oct. 22 Q’d Up Mobility Remote Cast
The next Q’d Up Mobility thought leadership series will be held Oct. 22 and will feature members of the Experiences Per Mile Advisory Council. More information will be e-mailed soon.
Read MoreWinning in Asia
Learn the secrets to winning in Asian car markets with Michael J. Dunne, an entrepreneur and author with 25 years of success in Asia. A native of Detroit, Dunne has founded companies in China, Thailand and Indonesia. He also speaks Chinese and Thai. Doing business in Asia is like playing an away game. Everything is different. How to grow your business there, to make profits? Dunne’s candid conversations with executives who have found a way to win in Asia will open your eyes to what works and what does not work. Listeners learn how to avoid the land mines. And capitalize on the opportunities.
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Credit federal aid, including extended unemployment benefits, with keeping the auto industry from crashing and burning during the coronavirus pandemic, Reid Bigland, the recently retired head of sales for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, said during a webinar sponsored by the Society of Automotive Analysts.
