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Emerging Supply Chain Trends – A Look at Evolving Finished Vehicle Logistics Amid Market Shifts and Trends

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Major Trends: Volatile Production, Capacity Crisis & The Need for EV Automotive manufacturing is experiencing a huge global transformation compared to the past. million in 2022 to 39 million by 2030. Let’s take a look at today’s vehicle production and distribution market and how companies are overcoming these challenges.

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Tesla’s Master Plan 3 and Its Implications for the Auto Industry

QAD

EV vs ICE Tesla’s plan is to scale to produce 20M cars per year by 2030. The expected size of the overall manufacturing facility should shrink by 40%. To put this in context, 66M cars were sold globally in 2022. To achieve this, they announced their next gen platform with an expected 50% reduction in cost per car.

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Surviving and Thriving in the Aftermath of the Great Resignation

QAD

Supply chains, long tuned to reduce costs and inventories, collapsed with stunning speed, and manufacturers realized that supply chain resiliency is a more important criteria than achieving the lowest possible costs. billion, Mexico $9.0 India is the only country expected to have a surplus of skilled labor by 2030.

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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

QAD

Supply chain due diligence is a critical topic for manufacturers and enterprises in all industries, especially given three major impacts of recent high-profile abuse cases, new due diligence laws and consumer buying trends. . All top 100 companies in Japan and Mexico produce an annual sustainability report. Let’s break it down.

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Tesla’s Disappointing Q3-2023 Financial Performance- The Bloom is Off the Rose

Supply Chain Matters

Continuing vehicle price cuts across the board have taken a toll without corresponding manufacturing cost decreases. Future Production Capacity Bloomberg noted in its reporting that Tesla is now slow walking the automaker’s plans for a previously announced investment in a new factory complex in Mexico.

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Tesla’s Audacious Growth Plans Unveiled Including New Production Plant

Supply Chain Matters

Investor Event and Master Plan 3 Tesla conducted is annual investor event this week at its Austin, Texas facilities and unveiled “ Master Plan Part 3 ” which aims toward becoming the largest automaker by volume by 2030. That equates to the ability to produce and sell 20 million vehicles globally. Tesla sold and delivered upwards of 1.3

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5 Disruptions Shaping the Digital Transformation in Distribution and Logistics

BlueYonder

Manufacturing and retail transformations, technology disruptions and digitalization of data have redefined the roles of distributors and third party logistics (3PLs). Digital Transformations in the Manufacturing and Retail Industries. Below are 5 disruptions shaping the digital transformation in distribution and logistics.