At 04:12 PM 3/22/01 -0600, you wrote:
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>Then there's the part about American arm vs the German arm of
>DaimlerChrysler:
>
>"Chrysler's slide from its position as one of the industry's most
>profitable companies has been marked by conspiracy theories
>and unsubstantiated claims. DaimlerChrysler's German executives
>typically are depicted as villains spiriting Chrysler's assets to safe
>havens in Germany -- and even using the three-times-a-week
>DaimlerChrysler shuttle plane to do it."
>
>Not a lot of truth to those theories according to this article. The
>Chrysler division did it all by themselves, for the most part.
Just read an article in the newspaper recently that audits
recently completed in all aspects by the German teams
show that DC was paying different prices to different suppliers
for the same part. It also showed that DC was paying same
suppliers different prices even though it was the same part but
was being used in different models. They project that they
can save hundreds of millions in the first year by fixing this
problem. Chrysler apparently has had a reputation in the
industry for such things for years going way back.
Too bad most of the story of what went on is so one-sided.
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