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COVID-19’s Immediate Impact on the Automotive Supplier Industry

QAD

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. As a result, the seasonally adjusted annual rate ( SAAR ) for automotive production has dropped to 11.4 million units.

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Top Automotive Mobile Barcoding Software Success Stories

RFgen

The automotive industry manages complex inventories in addition to facing vast outside pressures. Many automotive companies have found long-term success with mobile barcoding software. Learn why three real-life companies in the automotive industry implemented mobile barcoding solutions and their significant results.

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Charge Me Up! Energy Storage Development – A Fast Emerging Technology Needed for Sustainability

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The first iPhone only came out in 2007 – ushering in smart phone apps and all the rest in very quick succession. According to an article I read in Automotive News, this is driven by USA’s need for more battery raw materials from more secure origins. The answer would definitely be within the last 10 years.

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Inventory Management: We Can Do Better

Supply Chain Shaman

The period of 2007-2008 was the downturn of the recession while the period of 2009-2013 marked the recovery. Industries like automotive pushed cost and waste backward in the supply chain. The source of this data is a syndicated data provider of public reporting termed “Y-Charts.”). Supply Management.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007. Facing massive shortages in building supplies, technology, retail, and automotive, companies begin to redesign supply chains and take analytics more seriously. Let’s look at the past to forecast the future: Phase 1. Lockdowns and Disbelief.

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Labor Strike Targeting the Three U.S. Automakers- Update Two

Supply Chain Matters

automotive supply chain footprint is the unique nature of existing auto assembly and supplier production sites where foreign based auto manufacturers have elected to primarily locate production within U.S. Specifically for the U.S. southern states where right to work and non-union labor laws are practiced. automakers facing bankruptcy.

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The Industrial Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis

Logistics Bureau

When leading economists start talking about a drop in manufacturing comparable to the start of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, you can be sure that the world’s leading industries are in for a torrid few months. The Auto Industry. Moody’s Investor Service forecasts a drop of 2.5% in vehicle sales worldwide in 2020 due to Coronavirus.