Your editorial, "Stop Bullying" (Quality, June 2002, p. 6) and Chatterjee's, Satpathy's, Ganguli's, and Kumaresh's "Collaboration: Key to World Class Quality" (Quality, June 2002, p. 50) show that the U.S. auto industry has forgotten the techniques and practices it developed about 90 years ago. These include supply chain management and especially supplier development.