Boeing announced its top-performing suppliers at the company’s 2022 Supplier of the Year event in Los Angeles, recognizing nine companies for proactively managing supply chain quality, readiness and health and delivering on Boeing’s commitment to advance global sustainability.
Award categories include Supplier Diversity, Outstanding Performance, Alliance, Pathfinder, Supply Chain Visibility, Collaboration, Sustainability, Risk Management and Support & Services. For the first time, a Sustainability Supplier of the Year was awarded to demonstrate the importance of collaboration to drive sustainability across the supply chain.
Boeing 2022 Supplier of the Year Winner, Edison Energy, Sustainability Award
“Each Boeing Supplier of the Year delivered impressive performance as our entire industry collaborated to drive stability through a challenging environment,” said William Ampofo, Vice President of Parts & Distribution Services and Supply Chain for Boeing Global Services and Chair of Boeing’s Supply Chain Operations Council. “They did an outstanding job maintaining our high standards – a focus on operational excellence, quality and reliability – that allow Boeing to continue to earn the trust of our stakeholders, customers and the flying public.”
Boeing said the 2022 winners are Delaware Resource Group of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City for Supplier Diversity; GeoControl Systems, Inc., Houston, Texas for Outstanding Performance; Tata Advanced Systems, Hyderabad, India for Alliance Award and Evergreen Aviation Technologies Corp., Taoyuan City, Taiwan for Pathfinder award.
Others include Cytec Engineered Materials (SOLVAY Group), Havre De Grace, Md. for Supply Chain Visibility Award; voestalpine Böhler Aerospace GmbH & Co., Kapfenberg, Austria for Collaboration; Edison Energy, LLC, Irvine, Calif. for Sustainability; and RBC Bearings, Oxford, Conn. for Risk Management award, as well as GXO Logistics, Greenwich, Conn. who won the Support & Services award.
Boeing works with nearly 11,000 active suppliers worldwide and spends approximately $37 billion in supplier payments very year.