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A report prepared for the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WMEP), this report analyzes supplier upgrading, evolving OEM-supplier relations, and directions for future manufacturing modernization policy and research in Wisconsin.
This report is a follow up to Common Problems and Collaborative Solutions, a study of the changing relations between original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and their suppliers, with special focus on participants in the Supplier Training Program (STP) activities of the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Program (WMEP), as led by the OEM principals of the Supplier Training Consortium (STC).