The Ford IATF 16949 Customer Specific Requirements (CSR) were updated in November of 2021 with several important changes that became effective as of January 03, 2022 and were required to be implemented by July 1, 2022 for all programs that have not completed job 1 by that date.

We are in the midst of what is being dubbed the ‘Great Supply Chain Disruption,’ a period that began with the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020 and the infamous shortage of semiconductors around the same time, and has continued as the world has grappled with the resultant labor shortages and massive inflation

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