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Freescale honors Top Suppliers
Freescale recognized 10 companies with its prestigious Supplier Performance Excellence Awards.
The annual awards were presented to global suppliers demonstrating excellent performance in providing value, quality products and services key to Freescale's success.
Best Overall Supplier of the Year Award recognizes the company that consistently maintained the best overall score in quality. Komatsu Electronics Metals Co., a supplier of wafers to Freescale, is the recipient of this year's best overall supplier award.
Gold Performance Excellence Award recognizes companies that have demonstrated outstanding performance for all four quarters of a calendar year. Criteria include quality, cost, on-time delivery, technology innovation and customer service. Global recipients include:
Continuous Improvement Award recognizes companies for consistent and marked improvement over time. Teradyne, a supplier of capital equipment to Freescale, received the Continuous Improvement Award.
Freescale's annual Diversity Supplier of the Year Award recognizes a diversity supplier for quality, cost, service innovations and on-time delivery. This year's recipient is Computize, a computer peripherals supplier.
Nominations are made by Freescale's commodity managers and are based on suppliers' performance ratings in several categories such as quality, competitiveness, delivery, service and technology. Freescale's executive team reviews the nominations and makes the final selection of the top suppliers.