Ø Competition
Achieve leadership in customer satisfaction through a globally competitive world class quality, lean, self-sufficient supply base to support manufacturing, and assembly operations worldwide. Foster a partnership relation with the Suppliers as Integral to achievement of customer satisfaction.

Ø Purchasing Principle
It is Purchasing' s responsibility to ensure that the company's business is placed with the most innovative and cost competitive Suppliers, producing the highest quality products in support of our schedules. Purchasing focus is on total cost management and achievement of optimum material cost from a continually improving supply base.

Each Purchasing activity is responsible for establishing and maintaining a system for proper control of purchased products and services.

Ø Sourcing Policy
The Purchasing Department will maintain an "arms length" policy in dealing with all Suppliers. Sourcing decisions will based on analysis of quotations provided by Suppliers in response to routine market tests conducted by the Buyers. Supplier selection for the market test process will be at the discretion of the Buyer and sourcing decisions require concurrence of at least one or more levels of Purchasing management at AAT based on specific circumstances of the buy.

Ø Production Purchasing
The Production Purchasing Department is responsible for procurement of parts used in the assembly of production vehicles manufactured at the AutoAlliance (Thailand) plant.

Ø Non-Production Purchasing
The Non-Production Department is responsible for procurement of facilities, goods, services and materials needed to facilitate assembly of production vehicles and to support the normal business activities of the AutoAlliance (Thailand) plant and office.