Automotive part suppliers must comply with new quality management requirements by September 2018, according to the release of IATF 16949-2016. More importantly, the new standard equips quality leaders with the previously missing platform needed to establish quality management's importance to corporate success, surge quality management maturity, and achieve market differentiation through elevated operational and financial performance.

This spotlight report defines the current capabilities maturity of automotive manufacturers, provides strategies and frameworks to understand the journey to greater maturity, identifies LNS Research's specific best practice recommendations, and enumerates the operational and financial benefits of taking the quality maturity journey and exceeding compliance.