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My top insights from the Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain conference

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Disruption Old and New in the Automotive Industry

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There’s a fascinating article at IndustryWeek on disruption in the automotive industry. Steve Kiefer, Vice president global purchasing and supply chain at General Motors, makes it clear that GM has been disrupting the automotive industry for over a 100 years. Read the full article: Disruption Old and New.

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Here are the top automotive inbound supply best practices

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Overall, the future for the inbound automotive supply chain is subscription based software platform services in the cloud. If you’d like to know more on this and related subjects, I recommend you read the Automotive Inbound Supply Best Practices whitepaper. Today I want to conclude with a look ahead. .

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Inbound logistics requirements for the new automotive supply chain

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Considering the lengthy set of detailed logistics requirements for an automotive supplier list in the balance of this section, one needs to wonder how an optimal level of analytics, visibility, and control could have been provided using legacy systems.

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Why the automotive aftermarket spare parts supply chain is such a complex problem

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See below for a real example of how one of the world’s largest automotive leveraged an innovative cloud platform and a trusted 3PL partner to transform their spares business. I suggest you download the automotive aftermarket spares solution sheet. Image Credit: One Network Enterprises. Want to learn more?

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How international shipping can be improved in today’s global automotive supply chain

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Given the global nature of automotive manufacturing in today’s networked supply environments, international shipping will be a consideration as part of the trading relationship between Subsystem and Tier 1 Suppliers and their Tier 2 Suppliers. Typical omissions occur in the areas of values, descriptions, and country of origin.

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How order aggregation can eliminate costs in the automotive supply chain

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Given these exacting requirements, every automotive supplier needs to consider the advantages of the newer network-based architectures. As mentioned earlier the MMOG guidelines are popular in the automotive supplier space and are sometimes prescribed by the customers onto the suppliers as a supplier self-assessment tool.