"The AutoBusiness databases are invaluable in helping our clients understand their competitive position"
Director, leading European automotive consultancy

AutoBusiness’ Who Supplies Whom databases identify the suppliers of components, modules and systems to Europe and North America's major light vehicle models and platforms.

Based on the five major areas of the car, the databases include:

• Interior
• Exterior
• Powertrain
• Chassis
• Electrical/Electronic

Over the last five years we have been gathering suppliers' content on major volume models launched in Europe. We now have data on over 85% of light passenger vehicles launched in Europe over the last year, and have also just started covering North American models. At present the database contains details on over 35 models but this is being continually updated with around 4 new models each month. For each model we average 160 lines of data from 60 suppliers.

The information in the databases is gathered from our own monthly surveys of around 300 European, 204 North American and 165 Asian suppliers.

As a subscriber, you receive an email alert to inform you that the latest release is available to download from the AutoBusiness subscriber website, and which new vehicles have been included. The databases are delivered in MS Excel format for you to take advantage of the program’s filter function and search facilities, and you can also manipulate the information included in the databases for your own in-house use.

You can search the databases by:

• Model
• Platform
• Supplier
• Component
• OEM
• Brand
• Production date
• Plant
• Country where the vehicle is assembled.

We input the suppliers’ own definition of their component into the databases, so you get a unique level of detail from the suppliers themselves, but also provide and maintain a robust category system in order to standardise the components listed in the database.

In addition to the subscriber database range available, we can make custom sub-sets of data based on your specific requirements. These are available on a non-updating basis, ideal if you undertaking an urgent project and need to know only about specific component segments.

Our databases are used to form the cutaway features in Automotive News Europe and SupplierBusiness.com. Our customers include many of the major OEM purchasing departments.

Each sectoral database is priced at €1000. To subscribe to all five databases costs €2,800 euros. Custom sub-sets usually start around €500. Upon our receipt of your order, access to any of the databases, or delivery of your custom dataset is usually established within one working day.