Executives

Former GM purchasing scourge Bo Andersson is reborn as a supplier

Bo Andersson's current mission: Fix Yazaki's “underperforming” operations in North America and Europe by finding inefficiencies, firing managers and looking for plants to get rid of.
May 14, 2018 05:00 AM

DETROIT — He was the tough guy ticking off suppliers as head of General Motors’ global purchasing operations in the decade leading up to the crash. Then he was the tough guy breaking eggs as president of Russia’s bloated Soviet-era AvtoVAZ auto company.

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