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...from a General Motors subsidiary in the apartment of former employee Jorge Alvarez Aguirre, now with Volkswagen, and a feud brewing for four months flared into a bitter brawl. Alvarez was one of seven executives who last spring defected to Volkswagen with GM purchasing czar Jose Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua. "I cannot say that the papers we found were secret," said a spokesman for the local prosecutor's office in Darmstadt. "But I can say with certainty that the papers did not belong to ((Alvarez))." Speaking through his attorney, Alvarez said the boxes contained no corporate secrets...
General Motors filed a criminal complaint in Germany against Jose Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua, the former head of its global purchasing operations. The company says that when he left to join Volkswagen in March, he took confidential GM documents...
...must also mollify suppliers outraged by the high-handed tactics of J. Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua, a former European colleague of Jack Smith's who manages GM purchasing and is reportedly under orders to cut the company's $500 million weekly supply bill at least 20%. To do that, Lopez has been jeopardizing GM's long-term relations with its partners by demanding that they constantly resubmit their bids. At the same time, GM has been dragging its heels when paying bills. "GM's reputation as a gentleman in the industry is disappearing very quickly," says a leading supplier...
...most provocative of Smith's lieutenants is J. Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua, the director of worldwide purchasing, who reportedly has been handed the assignment of reducing GM's supplier costs at least 20%, or $100 million a week. Lopez, 51, a veteran of GM Europe, has become known as "the Grand Inquisitor." In only four months, he has rankled many of GM's leading suppliers by reopening existing contracts and dispatching his teams of subordinates through supplier factories to preach productivity in one-week workshops. Lopez says he has already transformed more than 100 of GM's 2,500 suppliers...
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