Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Mexico is seeing strong growth in manufacturing. market and secure redundant sources of supply. fabs tool up, Mexican companies can provide back-end process steps such as assembly and testing (as a center of automotive supply chains, Mexico is already a major destination for automotive semiconductors). Due to strong U.S.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 15, 2024

The latest updates on shipping delays in the Red Sea in January 2024, including which businesses and industries have been impacted. Which industries and companies are currently impacted in January 2024? This disruption affects various industries, including suppliers for global retailers and car manufacturers.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Supply Chain Matters highlights the announcement from Airbus setting aggressive aircraft production and delivery targets for 2024. 2024 Production Goal This week, commercial aircraft manufacturer Airbus established a goal to deliver upwards of 800 commercial aircraft this year. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 28, 2024

This funding is reportedly contingent on preconditions which include a delayed filing of its 2023 annual report with regulators and continued negotiations with an established auto maker on a joint manufacturing agreement related to North America based production. Workers After securing new ratified labor agreements among three major U.S.

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ThroughPut

MAY 24, 2024

Unlike traditional inventory optimization, which typically focuses on single locations or stages, MEIO considers the entire supply chain network, including suppliers, manufacturers, distribution centers, and retailers, to achieve efficiency and cost-effectiveness. What Industries Should Use Multi-Echelon Inventory? Optimization?

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 8, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters posting we provide highlights of manufacturing and supply chain developments involving electric vehicle automotive producers at the 2022 mid-year point. An added challenge has been the ramp-up of new manufacturing facilities in Austin, Texas and Berlin Germany. Rivian Automotive. Volkswagen.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The flexis capabilities are marketed to manufacturers seeking the ability to more flexibly schedule and sequence customer orders on production assembly lines, along with integrating with existing customer order systems for optimizing production dates based on inventory availability, production sequencing needs and transportation schedules.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

82% of people have concerns that the supply chain will ruin life plans, such as birthdays, vacations, holidays, and the purchasing of necessary items. 28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020). Source: Consultancy.UK. Image source: Fortune.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Background Supply chain ethical and social responsibility, that which umbrellas ESG conformance, have increasingly become a concern for businesses, large and small, along with their procurement organizations. © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Continuing our Supply Chain Matters highlights of the global wide automotive industry’s ongoing supply network and production transformation towards developing and producing electric powered vehicles, we highlight a recent announcement from Ford Motor Company. automotive market, but also to meet the incentive needs under the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 6, 2024

Background In prior Supply Chain Matters commentaries, we have highlighted ongoing production and supply chain challenges related to high profile EV start-ups Rivian Automotive and Lucid. Once more, the company has a stated goal to produce upwards of 22,000 vehicles in 2024. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

Our Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech column has had a brisk start in our 2024 postings, and we have added this supplemental posting. In our initial 2024 posting last week, we highlighted two acquisitions related to supply chain technology providers. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 25, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides key highlights and added supply chain and production perspectives on Tesla ’s recent report of Q1-2024 financial performance. The post Tesla’s Q1-2024 Financial Performance- Calling an Audible first appeared on The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group / Supply Chain Management. All rights reserved.

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QAD

MAY 18, 2023

The automotive industry is undergoing a massive technological transformation toward vehicle electrification and the shift presents huge opportunities for manufacturers that do business in the US, especially since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022. What’s in the Inflation Reduction Act’s New Clean Vehicle Credit?

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters posting, we highlight a rather significant reports indicating that Apple is considering sourcing of the chip fabrication of its advanced design semiconductor processers within the U.S. within a period of two years, and the industry implications from such a move. . Background. based fabrication facility.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 21, 2024

Global capacity constraints came to the forefront during the global wide Covid – 19 pandemic period, when a global wide shortage of such devices considerably impacted automotive production and other equipment output. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Just-In-Time inventory management approach revolutionized manufacturing forever. Just-In-Time (JIT) Inventory Management, also known as lean manufacturing or the Toyota Production System (TPS), is a strategy that aligns raw-material orders from suppliers directly with production schedules. How Does Just-In-Time (JIT) Work?

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QAD

MARCH 28, 2024

In 2022, a report from Sheffield Hallam University found that every large car manufacturer was at a high risk of sourcing parts linked to Xinjiang. Nor do automotive companies exclusively face this problem. By February 2024, CBP had issued Withhold Release Orders (WROs) on over 7,000 shipments worth $2.6B.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides another update on ongoing strategic sourcing and operational developments occurring among electric vehicle focused supply and production networks. Included in this update are Tesla , Rivian Automotive and Mercedes Vans , along with recycling technology start-up efforts.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group highlights a 2024 prediction of added labor activism continuing across industry supply chains in 2024. Manufacturing Employment Impacts Across Europe and the United Kingdom , a significant period of production contraction has led to added manufacturing job losses.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 10, 2023

Last year, during the height of Covid-19 related lockdowns across China’s manufacturing regions, local government agencies reportedly worked with Tesla officials to keep the facility operating with the workforce restricted to campus living conditions.

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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 the end of 2022, half of all manufacturing supply chains will see the benefits of supply chain resiliency, resulting in a 10% reduction in disruption impact.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Supply Chain Matters has provided readers multiple commentaries focused on the shifting forces, both geo-political and industry generated, that are now providing short and longer-term impacts on the sourcing of semiconductor manufacturing and associated networks. sourced design technology for China ’s major chip designers and fabs.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 30, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides a follow-up automotive industry perspective focusing on Toyota Motor and its inherent abilities to continuously adapt to consumer and market dynamics. That led to the notions of flexible manufacturing strategies predicated on a select number of common vehicle platforms that brands or models could leverage.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 13, 2024

In this industry specific Supply Chain Matters commentary , we provide perspectives on aerospace and commercial aircraft producer Boeing ’s added challenge in 2024, that being on the labor relations front. As noted in our prediction, the lens in 2024 further turns toward labor negotiations involving U.S. The future of a U.S.

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Resilinc

JULY 26, 2022

Not coincidentally, the company opened its first in-house European manufacturing facility in Budapest in June. Samsung follower SamMobile.com reports that Samsung is boosting its use of domestic Korean sources for expandable components in semiconductor manufacturing. And tech firms are getting into the automotive industry.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 11, 2023

TSMC to Construct its First European Chip Fabrication Facility Industry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) announced this week that the Taiwan based producer will construct its first European based chip facility that will be located in Germany.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 16, 2023

Rivian Automotive ’s recent report on quarterly financial performance provides evidence that this EV start-up is showing signs that the company has done its homework in supply chain and production operations industry basics. Plans established for 2024 were to increase production capacity to 85,000 vehicles.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 3, 2024

Major Earthquake Senior business, procurement, information technology or supply chain executives with the responsibility for the assessment and mitigation of business related risks can often contemplate various impactful risk events. Reportedly, United Microelectronics Corp , Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 30, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights yet another automotive electric vehicle start-up having to initiate a significant headcount reduction in order to cut operating expenses. Indications from Lucid management are that the EV auto maker will have sufficient cash to fund operations through the first quarter of 2024.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to reports from Bloomberg, Automotive News, Reuters and The Wall Street Journal , wages for most Toyota assembly line workers will increase from $31.86 per hour, beginning on January 1, 2024. based manufacturing presence. The global automaker who operates non-unionized facilities across the U.S. per hour, to $34.80

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In a Supply Chain Matters posting published on the day of signing into law by President Joseph Bidon , we noted the overall significance to high tech, consumer electronics, industrial and automotive supply networks among other industries. They include: Large-scale investment in leading-edge logic and memory manufacturing clusters.

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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. production worker hourly wages starting in January 2024.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Inflation Reduction Act , which fosters consumer incentives to purchase EV vehicles if 50 percent of major battery components are produced in North America. That includes rescinded job offers, the subleasing of existing office space among several cities as well as other actions to lower the company’s overall cost base. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 13, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights Rivian Automotive ’s reported Q4 and full-year financial and operational performance along with plans for the next two years. Included in the results were noted inventory charges and losses on firm purchase commitments of $920 million as of December 31, 2022 compared to $95 million as of December 31, 2021.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 20, 2023

After reporting record Q2-2023 production out and vehicle deliveries earlier this month , Tesla r eported all-time high automotive sales and added profitability performance in the recent quarter. Financial Headlines Total Automotive Revenues in Q2 were up 46 percent to $21.2 Total Net Income rose 20 percent to $2.7

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Arena Solutions

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

AI by the end of 2024. With greater numbers of electronics, software, and sensors in smart products, today’s manufacturers and supply chains need better ways to collaborate throughout new product development and introduction (NPDI) to ensure products work as designed. 1 data and analytics trend. [i].

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