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- GRAPEVINE, Page 11GM to GE: Japan Does It Better
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- By JANICE CASTRO
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- General Motors is reviewing all contracts with its 5,000
- suppliers in search of ways to firm up quality while trimming
- as much as $4 billion, or 13%, from its $30 billion
- parts-and-supplies budget. As a result, its longtime
- relationship with GENERAL ELECTRIC is on the line. A GM supplier
- since the 1920s, GE makes 60 million tiny light bulbs every year
- for GM dashboard displays, trunks and glove compartments. Now
- GM has located a Japanese company whose light bulbs cost 20%
- more but last 40% longer, and it has challenged GE to close the
- savings gap.
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