Jasper Engines & Transmissions Awards Suppliers
Jasper Engines & Transmissions announced its "New Part Supplier Award" winners to nine corporate recipients in the three categories.

JASPER Partnership Award recipient Bill Levy (center) from U.S. Tool and Manufacturing Company shows off his trophy with members of the Jasper team.
Photo courtesy of Jasper
Jasper Engines & Transmissions announced its "New Part Supplier Award" winners for calendar-year 2018 performance. There were nine corporate recipients named in the three categories:
GROWTH AWARDS:
Aisin World Corp. of America
Cometic Gasket Inc.
ElringKlinger AG
SERVICE AWARDS:
BorgWarner Inc.
Elgin Industries
Robert Bosch, LLC
QUALITY AWARDS:
Eaton Corporation
Euroricambi, SpA
NPR of America, LLC
Each supplier received a JASPER trophy honoring their key role and performance in 2018. JASPER presents these awards annually to recognize the company’s key Partners in Success. The respective suppliers provided JASPER with "above & beyond" performance in calendar year 2018 based on the following criteria:
GROWTH Award winners were based on percentage increase in the amount of dollars spent from 2017 to 2018 (minimum annual spend of $150,000).
SERVICE Award winners were established by joint nominating efforts between JASPER’s Sourcing and Purchasing teams in key areas including: On-Time Ship Performance, Timely Response, Sense of Urgency, Problem Resolution, and an overall High Level of Customer Service from these suppliers.
QUALITY Award winners were established by joint nominating efforts between JASPER’s Sourcing, Quality, and New Product Development Teams in key areas such as: 1st Piece & Incoming Inspection Results, Corrective Action Request(s) Responses, Vendor Scorecard Performance, Technical Expertise, and overall Product Quality.
This year, JASPER was also proud to recognize Bill Levy from U.S. Tool and Manufacturing Company for the Partnership Award for his individual efforts in consistently going above and beyond, and in making JASPER his number one priority.
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