TE Supplement defines the fundamental quality system expectations of Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Truck Manufacturers and other subscribing companies for internal and external suppliers of production, service parts and materials. These companies are committed to working together to ensure customer satisfaction, beginning with conformance to quality requirements and continuing with reduction of variation & waste to benefit the customer, the supply base and themselves.

Applicability

TE Supplement applies to all internal and external suppliers of:

	Production materials
	Production or service parts
	Heat treating, painting ,plating and other finishing services directly to Chrysler, Ford, General Motors or other OEM customers subscribing to this document.
	'Shall', 'will', 'must' are mandatory requirements. 'Should' is preferred approach

This document supersedes all editions of Chrysler's Supplier Quality Assurance Manual, Ford's Q-101 Quality System Standard, General Motors' Europe General Quality Standard for Purchased Materials and the Truck Manufacturers Quality System manuals.

QS/TE 9000 Supplement

	QS 9000, in conjunction with ISO9001/9002, is applicable only to suppliers of production parts/materials/production services to the automotive supply chain.
	QS 9000 is not applicable to Tooling manufacturers/Equipment manufacturers, catering to the automotive industry.
	Chrysler, GM, Ford have come out with a TE supplement to QS 9000 for interpreting the basic principles of QS 9000 requirements to manufacturers of Tooling and Equipment
	Presently we have the second edition of TE supplement (June 98)
	A Tooling/Equipment manufacturer can get 3rd party registration to QS/TE supplement, but this has not been mandated by the big three.
	TE supplement supersedes Chrysler's 'TESQA Manual' and Ford's 'F & T QSS'.
	A major aspect of focus in the TE supplement is the effective use of 'Reliability and Maintainability' concepts using 'Total Life Cycle Costing' for Tooling and Equipment.