Boeing awards its top suppliers

By Dave Hannon -- Purchasing, 4/20/2007 9:10:00 AM

The Boeing Co. this week held a ceremony in Bellevue, Wash. to honor its top suppliers in 11 different categories.

Winners were selected from a field of more than 27,000 Boeing suppliers in nearly 100 countries as part of a review process. A Boeing statement points out that “The winning suppliers were chosen based on statistical measurements of quality, on-time delivery, post-delivery support and cost over a 12-month period through September 2006. They also were evaluated on their ability to anticipate and respond to changing customer requirements.”

The winners in the individual categories were:

Avionics Category
Jena-Optronik of Jena, Germany

Electronics/Hydraulics/Mechanical
Senior Systems Technology of Palmdale, Calif.

Major Structures
Korean Airlines Aerospace Division of Busan, South Korea

Purchased Outside Production
Patriot Machine of St. Charles, Mo.

Common Aerospace Commodities
Wildwood Electronics of Madison, Ala.

Aerospace Support
New Breed Logistics of High Point, N.C.

Non-Production/Shared Services Group
WebEx of Santa Clara, Calif.

To watch a video of Boeing’s 2006 Supplier of the Year ceremony click here.

Diversity/Small Woman Business Enterprise
Barrios Technology of Houston, Texas

Diversity/Small Minority Business Enterprise
Carrillo Business Technologies of Westminster, Calif.

Diversity/Boeing Protégé
Pacific Contours Corp. of Anaheim, Calif.

For more details on each of these suppliers, click here.