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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

In February, Klaus Niebur, the director of global supply chain risk management at Autoliv, and Jan Thiessen, the managing director at targetP!, spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. The implementation was not trivial.

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Advanced Product Quality Planning – The 5 Phases of APQP

QAD

APQP’s focus on customer needs ensures that products are developed and manufactured to fulfill those requirements, resulting in increasing customer satisfaction, improved customer loyalty and business competitiveness. Since then, the APQP process has gained momentum and piqued the interest of manufacturers across various industries.

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China’s COVID policies fracture global supply chains

Resilinc

While constraints and delays continued into the first couple months of 2022, it still seemed that the year would see continuing improvement in supply chain conditions. The Institute for Supply Management reported in April that average time for U.S. Read: The Case for a Pan-American Manufacturing Ecosystem.

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One Multinational’s Supply Chain Transformation Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

It started in manufacturing and spread, step by step, to improvements in the way the company runs its supply chain. Being able to look at a service failure and get down to root causes is necessary for continuous improvement. COVID has led many companies to talk about improving their resilience. It takes time.

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Why You Should Conduct Internal Quality Audits

Arena Solutions

If you’re a product developer, manufacturer, or part of an engineering team, you know the excitement, challenge, and profitability that come from transforming an idea into an actual product. In 2022 alone, the global aerospace and defense market size has grown from $795.92 billion to $855.62 billion in 2023. billion to $799.67

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How to Thrive Amid Looming EU Medical Device and iVD Regulations

QAD

Every medical device manufacturer selling to the European Union or hoping to has been preparing and awaiting its arrival with a combination of anticipation and dread. A recent Emergo Outlook survey asked a similar question to manufacturing leaders regarding future sales (see figure below). It was first announced four years ago.

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The Digital Supply Chain Journey: Step 2 – Digital Transformation Leadership!

Supply Chain Game Changer

This runs from multi-tier suppliers through to all logistics modes and channels, all internal operations such as manufacturing an warehousing, through to the ultimate end consumer, and inclusive of the reverse logistics chain. Fourth, these leaders must be competent risk managers. Originally published on November 22, 2022.