Nearly a dozen of the automotive industry's top executives will address manufacturing success via tight, cohesive supply chain management at the 2007 Automotive News Manufacturing Conference May 16 - 18 at the Renaissance nashville Hotel in Nashville, TN. The event is sponsored by Deloitte and Tennessee Economic and Community Development.

The conference theme, The Seamless Supply Chain: The managerial culture and technical tools that make for high-quality, high-productivity manufacturing, spotlights factory floor coordination and communication not only in state-of-the-art technology, but also state-of-the-art planning and organizational ideas.

Automotive News Manufacturing Conference presentations kick off with individual morning remarks by:

- William G. Diehl, President, CEO & Global Automotive Practice Lead, BBK
- Ron Harbour, President, Harbour Consulting
- John G. Kalson, Director of Production, Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama
- Bill Krueger, Senior Vice President North American Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management (effective 4/1), Nissan North America Inc.

According to PRNews Wire, Bo I. Andersson, Vice President, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain, General Motors will address the conference during the dinner program. The evening will also include the first-time presentation of the Automotive News Supplier's Choice Awards. Based on results of a survey conducted by J.D. Power and Associates, the awards recognize original equipment
manufacturers that best encourage, solicit, implement and reward suppliers' innovations as part of their total business plan.