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Since the mid-1980s, Sona Steering Systems (later renamed as Sona Koyo Steering Systems Ltd) has been a competitive player in the Indian auto component industry. The firm has made remarkable progress in competitiveness through numerous initiatives over the past two decades. Starting as a single-source supplier of simple mechanical steering systems, the firm has systematically improved competitiveness, evolving into a capable Deming Prize-winning firm with capabilities across the industry value system. By November 2005, the firm had many customers and, for some of them, had designed entire systems to their specifications. This case provides a context for identifying Sona Koyo's sources of competitiveness through two important concepts. The versatile yet simple assets-processes-performance (APP) framework is used to identify relevant factors of competitiveness, while the concept of the "competitiveness journey" is introduced to examine different contexts, scenarios, strategies and initiatives as well as company performance. The case builds on analysis of data and insights culled from professionals at different levels of the company, up to the chairman.