Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Last week, after booking an additional $1B in unexpected supplier costs in the third quarter, the CFO led the company’s focus on restructuring to “support efficient and reliable sourcing of components and internal development of key technologies and capabilities.” What is the issue? These capabilities do not exist at Ford.
Logistics Viewpoints
AUGUST 24, 2022
As Brent mentioned in his introduction, it has been a challenging few years for semiconductor manufacturers. Concurrent supply chain planning is required for the company to navigate uncertainty and expand into new markets of automotive, computing, and connective intelligent edge. As Covid spread, so too did factory closures.
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Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
The Russian invasion of Ukraine stretches into a much longer war resulting in serious disruptions to the food, automotive, and semi-conductor supply chains. Business continuity continues to be a risk for many retailers and manufacturers. Definition of Form and Function of Inventory: Source Supply Chain Insights. My take away?
ivalua
JANUARY 29, 2021
Frédéric Lino EVP Purchasing and Supply Chain. He also holds an Executive Master in International Purchasing Management from ESSEC Business School (2012). He was then promoted to Purchasing Executive Manager at Renault-Nissan, where he will be in charge of seat and raw material amenities with the management of 25 buyers.
Logistics Viewpoints
DECEMBER 5, 2022
The fact that most manufacturers struggled to achieve supply chain agility during COVID is not news. Those industries include data communications, medical, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics. By 2012 they had implemented this multi-enterprise supply chain network (MSCN) solution. The Molex Supply Chain.
Supply Chain Matters
AUGUST 30, 2023
The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group, via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog calls reader attention to two recently published research papers that address evidence of ongoing shifts in global supply component and end production sourcing. The above seems to imply, from our lens, the movement toward China Plus sourcing activity.
GlobalTranz
JUNE 8, 2015
Modern electronics ratcheted up the demand for portable sources of electric power. The Tesla end run using lithium batteries, probably caused the NiMH patent sale to BASF in 2012. When the Prius first came out the automotive engineering community believed that a short NiMH battery life would be its downfall. Prius by Jbleeker.
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