The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

Trends Transforming Logistics and Supply Chains In the MENA Region in 2023. by Dr Shereen Nassar , Global Director of Logistics Studies and Director of MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management Suite at Heriot-Watt University Dubai. Demand Sensing for Accurate Planning and Forecasting. billion USD by 2026.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 24, 2022

Sreenivas Vemulapalli and Joe Lynch discuss how to streamline your logistics operations. Emtec Digital is a global technology services company providing digital software engineering and transformation services to some of the leading transportation and logistics companies across the world. About Sreenivas (Sreeni) Vemulapalli.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I just returned from the Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain Conference in Detroit. This annual event explores supply chain management and how logistics can succeed in a fast-changing environment. OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers should consider longer-term forecasting and capacity collaboration with their Tier-n suppliers.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 24, 2023

The following are the insights gained from my discussion with Salim Shaikh , who leads Blue Yonder’s Automotive Industry Strategy, during a recent Blue Yonder Live and webinars that we prepared for jointly. I have not seen that in the past 25 years being in the automotive industry. The same with Mercedes-Benz USA.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Logistics strategy as an enabler of new business models. They have changed the way they see logistics, and no longer view it as just a support process in their organization. A logistics strategy provides the competitive edge. A logistics strategy provides the competitive edge. Design of the logistics network.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 6, 2022

Challenged by an incredible level of volatility, every participant in the automotive supply chain industry needs to precisely understand, and respond to, market demand. A full two years after the COVID-19 pandemic began to upend the world’s supply chains, the global automotive industry is still struggling to rebound.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2023

The following are the insights gained from my discussion with Salim Shaikh , who leads Blue Yonder’s Automotive Industry Strategy, during a recent Blue Yonder Live and webinars that we prepared for jointly. This is the exact word that used by Kelly Bysouth, the chief supply chain officer at International Automotive Components (IAC).

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ZF is a Tier 1 supplier to the automotive industry. While most of their sales are to automotive OEMs, they also sell components that go into other products – trucks and busses, wind turbines, tractors, construction equipment, etc. Decreasing forecast accuracy makes it more difficult to run a lean supply chain.

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The Network Effect

JANUARY 11, 2016

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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Logility

AUGUST 4, 2023

DENSO Corporation , a global automotive components manufacturer, is bucking that trend with tighter collaboration and a different outlook on supply chain disruption. By working together, we are better equipped to avoid this mistake, inspiring trust among our people because we still walk the talk.”

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Logility

JANUARY 31, 2023

Measuring the Value of Optimized Inventory in Service Parts The spare parts market is big business, with the global automotive spare parts market valued at US $160.69 This can be achieved through forecast-driven stocking strategies and a supply chain designed and configured for efficiency. billion by 2030.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Chris Castle, the vice president of product management at Nulogy, said that collaboration in the consumer goods industry was more even handed than in industries like automotive. In automotive, the OEM says “jump” and the suppliers asks “how high?”. They provide predicted times of arrivals for those shipments.

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The Network Effect

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Today I want to talk about the challenges faced by today’s automotive suppliers, and why a network model for their supply chain can help. Supply chain organizations within the automotive supplier industry contribute to manufacturing excellence in many ways, including quality, cost, and delivery to their OEM and subsystem customer base.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The automotive sector has switched lanes into a new digital world, where the pace of change is also hurtling manufacturers into oncoming traffic in the form of geopolitical, economic and natural crises. As we await the next inevitable “Black Swan” event, automotive players have realized the need to be proactive, not just reactive.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 20, 2020

10% increase in both forecast accuracy and revenue. The automotive and farm equipment manufacturing giant’s Spares Business Unit (SBU) witnessed lost sales revenues due to stockouts and tight working capital as a result of high inventory investment. 15% decrease in inventory. 10% increase in service levels. Improved productivity.

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Logility

MARCH 16, 2023

Logility NDO enables you to improve your resiliency by continuously assessing tough tradeoffs between sourcing and distribution options, lead times, and logistics costs. Detect market shifts with demand sensing The goal of demand sensing has always been to do better than traditional forecasting at short-term planning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 19, 2021

They produce a wide range of products for the automotive, construction, engineering, and packaging industries. Planners come up with data-proven forecasts on what the market may buy. A larger forecast is created, and then that same process of breaking the plan down, and building it back up to a feasible plan, occurs again.

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QAD

JULY 28, 2022

It encourages us to continue meeting with automotive industry experts about supply chain issues that resonate with so many listeners. Episode #6: Electrifying the Automotive Supply Chain. With three decades of hands-on automotive experience, Paul Eichenberg , Chief Strategist, Eichenberg Consulting, L.L.C.,

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DELMIA Quintiq

JUNE 22, 2015

The outline of the deal is simple: Mercedes will manage the logistics and supply chain, while keeping their supplier network in place. The automotive industry commonly deals with global supply chains: Globally dispersed suppliers and worldwide manufacturing facilities increase complexity. The answer is simple: Collaboration.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Advancing Resilience Amidst Trade Disruptions and Tariff Swings by Dr. Shereen Nassar, Global Director of Logistics Studies and Director of MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management Suite at Heriot-Watt University Dubai Supply chain resilience has become a crucial topic of discussion in our interconnected and globalised world.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As we finish 2021, the supply chain is front and center with challenges reported across the globe; across multiple industries from consumer products through to automotive. By 2024, 40% of APeJ-based supply chain forecasts will be automated through the use of artificial intelligence, improving accuracy by 5 percentage points.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From the automotive industry with both OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, through to packaging companies supplying the CPG industry. The root causes could lie in inaccurate forecasting, supplier underperformance, customs hold ups and other global logistics issues to name a few. Stock loss isn’t selective on item size either.

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QAD

JULY 8, 2021

In our blog last month, we discussed how the automotive industry must learn this time from yet another semiconductor shortage by improving management of essential supply chain processes or we will find ourselves in another shortage crisis. Identifying Long Lead Times to Drive Accurate Forecasts.

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The Network Effect

JULY 24, 2015

Suppliers who ship either in truckload quantities or as part of a milk run may be requested to utilize future forecasted demand within their 830 authorizations to fill allotted space on the designated carrier. The post How order aggregation can eliminate costs in the automotive supply chain appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Rivian Automotive is now free to sell its EV parcel vans to other parcel carriers, and added reinforcement from multiple ocean container shipping carriers that the existing industry volume declines could extend for two to three years. Increased automation of fulfillment services is cited as a further reason.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 25, 2022

More than ever, seasonal inventory needs to be carefully accounted for during the demand forecasting and inventory planning process , ensuring right-sized inventory that can meet customer expectations while limiting the spend and use of working capital. Is your historical data not a reliable enough foundation for your forecast?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

The global supply chain that we know today is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, low variability, and availability of logistics. We can no longer assume that government policy is rational, variability is low or logistics are available. These core assumptions are no longer true. This reset is not an evolution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 19, 2022

This global market has been growing extremely fast and I forecast it continue growing at a rapid pace. Publicly noted examples include Geek+ deployments at Nike, VIP.com, and Winit in Asia; and Hikrobot deployments at FAW-Volkswagen, Yanfeng Automotive Interiors, and BOE Technology.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button by Lora Cecere , Founder, Supply Chain Insights Supply Chain Leaders Can’t Afford to Guess About the Future The global supply chain that we know today is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, low variability, and availability of logistics. These core assumptions are no longer true.

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Shipsy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

India is on the verge of becoming the world’s third-largest auto manufacturer by 2020 but unfortunately, India’s logistics cost as a per cent of sales is at least 30% higher than China mainly because of inefficiencies. Let’s take a look at 5 major challenges being faced by Indian automotive industry. Stay tuned.

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Logility

AUGUST 11, 2023

The automotive part manufacturer now takes appropriate actions to expand the sustainable impact of its S&OP process while simplifying and accelerating enterprise-wide reporting and auditing of published goals. Meanwhile, logistics services are navigating more intense storms, deteriorating roadways, and overcrowded ports.

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QAD

JUNE 8, 2021

The good news is, according to an April 2021 survey conducted by Automotive News Research & Data Center , 42% of automakers and parts suppliers say they will change the way they manage supply chain risk due to the current global shortage of microchips. Insufficient deployment of demand down through the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Industry vertical concentration includes Automotive, Manufacturing and Logistics industry sectors. The flexis acquisition follows the announced closing of the acquisition of Doodle in November 2023, a provider of first and last mile logistics support for customer returns processes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2022

In forecasting lock downs, they looked at infections per million people (PPM) per country. The shut-down forecast also allowed the company to position extra PPEs at its 3 Italian plants. Examples of third-party data would include weather forecasts, sustainability ratings, or D&Bs on a company’s financial viability.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. The reason? Lockdowns and Disbelief.

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 18, 2021

Distribution management includes forecasting, transportation, warehousing, and delivery within the larger universe of logistics and supply chain management. Distribution management is an integral part of logistics. Logistics software. Forecasting tools. Highly efficient equipment. Customer Perspective.

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Resilinc

DECEMBER 20, 2021

WSJ Logistics Report Editor Paul Page heralded the announcement as a bellwether, noting that Toyota had “been the last voice of caution about electric vehicles among the world’s top auto makers.”. There are new investments underway—many of them underwritten by the automotive industry.

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