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Apr 3, 2008

Ford further integrates global product development & purchasing teams


Ford Motor Company is taking further steps to align its product development and purchasing organizations into an integrated global team to accelerate the creation of vehicles customers really want, reduce costs, enhance quality, and improve efficiency by eliminating duplicate engineering and purchasing efforts.

Under changes effective April 1, Ford is reorganizing senior leaders in the product development and purchasing organizations to assign global responsibility for key vehicle segments and major purchasing functions. In addition, Ford is designating a global network of engineering centers that will be responsible for developing the core attributes of Ford brand vehicles worldwide. These changes will allow Ford to more effectively and efficiently support the company's regional business units in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific and Africa.

"We have successfully shared technologies across many of our product lines in the past. These changes will allow us to fully leverage Ford's global product development and purchasing organizations to create more customer- focused vehicles faster," said Derrick Kuzak, Ford's group vice president, Global Product Development.

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