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. Can we get the supplies from an alternate source?

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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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Resilinc

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The controversy has led Tesla and others to use blockchain technology to ensure (and prove to human rights groups) that they use only ethically sourced cobalt. There are new investments underway—many of them underwritten by the automotive industry. Much more such investments will be needed, and not just in the U.S.

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QAD

APRIL 21, 2020

The onset of COVID-19 arrived at a time when the global automotive industry was already in a state of tumult, with suppliers and automakers looking at a future defined by electrification, autonomy, and connectedness. According to LMC – globally, production is now forecasted to drop to 76.9 from a pre-pandemic forecast of 89.2

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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. Sobeck explained, forecast accuracy had been declining as product sales became more volatile.

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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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QAD

APRIL 18, 2024

Complex dynamics shape the global automotive industry’s transition towards battery electric vehicles (BEVs). manufacturing prowess and reduce dependency on foreign components, particularly those sourced from China. automotive sector. This initiative aims to bolster U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Machine Learning, a Form of Artifical Intelligence, Has Feedback Loops that Improve Forecasting. A supply chain planning model learns when the planning application takes an output, like a forecast, observes the accuracy of the output, and then updates its own model so that better outputs will occur in the future.

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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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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. In nine out of ten supply chain planning systems that I test, I find that companies have a negative Forecast Value Added level. Let’s face it, these approaches are passe.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Based on the current issues with material shortages, labor issues, electrical costs and outages, weather events, and water availability, I forecast an equal level of disruption for the next three years. Make, source, and deliver need to be managed together based on analytics that sense and respond at the speed of business.

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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?”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

Concurrent supply chain planning is required for the company to navigate uncertainty and expand into new markets of automotive, computing, and connective intelligent edge. Brent pointed out that Covid created small interruptions for many companies in terms of sourcing semiconductor chip materials.

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USC Consulting Group

DECEMBER 15, 2020

It’s been a bumpy ride for the automotive industry this past year. Back in November and December when the economy was running full speed ahead, automotive manufacturers had high expectations for robust sales activity in 2020. One of the issues that automotive manufacturers encountered throughout the pandemic was absenteeism.

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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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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Furthermore, the growing chip shortage is prompting the automotive industry to order surplus semiconductors—about 10 to 20 percent more than needed—to ensure inventory and safeguard production. Unreliable Forecasting. Getting the forecast right is still challenging for many supply chains. Do you have whiplash yet?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

One of the most valuable lessons from trade disruptions is the importance of diversifying sourcing locations. To safeguard against such risks, companies must explore multiple sourcing options. Technology such as advanced forecasting and tracking systems can provide greater visibility and agility in supply chain operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It is difficult to forecast dropping demand. So, if a recession appears likely, companies need to error on the side of a conservative forecast, be prepared to lay off workers sooner rather than later, and start drawing down their safety stock inventory. There is a playbook for companies facing a recession.

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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. ” Her answer was telling.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Lean initially became a popular continuous improvement methodology because of Toyota’s emergence as a leader in the automotive industry. In the automotive industry, Kanban warehouses are common. In the automotive industry, Kanban warehouses are common. Toyota’s success was attributed in large part to their use of lean.

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QAD

AUGUST 4, 2021

Ultimately, this drive in delivery demand has decreased the available supply of trucks and drivers for the automotive industry, delaying important deliveries of parts and materials and stalling production processes. Here are five strategies your automotive company should consider moving forward: . Solid Forecasting .

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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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QAD

MARCH 26, 2024

Complex dynamics shape the global automotive industry’s transition towards battery electric vehicles (BEVs). In the evolving landscape of automotive regulation, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is at a crossroads, with significant speculation about adjusting its vehicle emission targets for 2026 and beyond.

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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. For PPC Flexible Packing , customer collaboration is the name of the game.

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QAD

JULY 18, 2019

This is taking place more as young people in urban communities are driving less, accelerating the shift toward what’s being dubbed “peak automotive production” — a time in the not-too-distant future when sales of private vehicles across the western world may plateau before making a swift descent. Evolving Scenarios.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 26, 2022

As a recent college graduate, he was chartered with running manufacturing discrete event simulation for an automotive company. Few know how to test distortion, forecastability, and Forecast Value Added. The processes of indirect procurement have little in common with direct material sourcing. He was frustrated.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act adds a presumption under the US Tariff Act that goods sourced from or produced in Xinjiang—home to many of China’s Uyghur and other Muslim minority populations—are made with forced labor. To import products from the region, companies will have to document that they aren’t sourced from forced labor.

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QAD

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Episode #41: Preparing for Post-Strike Success in Automotive Supply Chains The strike between the UAW and General Motors , Ford and Stellantis is over and Cathy, Jan and I couldn’t be more relieved – but we’re still feeling a bit anxious, and I bet you are, too. If they don’t, someone else will, and that competitive advantage diminishes.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Surprising demand in automotive for car replacement. On one extreme, there is an argument that forecasts are always wrong, “Why do them at all?” ” At the other end of the continuum is the argument that “ Forecast error is the most important metric to improve.” What are they seeing? Need for Tuning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Hadoop is an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed storage and processing of large data sets on computer clusters. Market-Driven Forecasting: Historically, the use of linear optimization and genetic algorithms to sense future trends from order and shipment patterns and predict the future defined forecasting.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Budgeting can be centralized with forecast and actual information in one place, providing a single version of the truth. For financial planning, an ERP system can model and evaluate “what if” scenarios between actuals and projections and update forecasts.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 5, 2017

Take this example: A company decides to go ahead with the manufacturing of a new product based on sufficient plant capacity and favorable sales forecast. And there are more what-ifs to be analyzed: What if demand for your product is under forecasted? Multiple scenarios, one profitable decision. How will the plan affect your KPIs?

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QAD

AUGUST 17, 2023

June, July and even August have traditionally been laid-back months in the automotive industry, between vacations and major OEMs’ summer shutdowns, but the action never stops here at the Auto Supply Chain Prophets podcast. Season 2 is now in full swing, but you can find a complete list here.

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