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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

Autoliv is the world’s largest safety system supplier in automotive industry. It supplies airbags, seatbelts, and steering wheels to most of the Automotive OEMs – companies like Renault/Nissan, Volkswagen, etc. in turn, is a boutique procurement consultancy. This is our “supplier board”. Soon we will do more training.

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Top Transportation & Logistics Influencers

The Logistics of Logistics

He is also the Founder and Co-Director of the MIT FreightLab – a research initiative that works on improving the way freight transportation is designed, procured, and managed. Founder, LogisticsMatter How can AR improve warehouse management? Cassandra Gaines. Martijn Graat.

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

Supply Chain Shaman

The automotive industries–with the poorest capabilities to plan and manage suppliers–will suffer the most. The answers lie in investments in supplier development teams, the simplification of the bill of materials and product platforms, and analytics to forecast requirements based on consumption. Prepare for a slog.

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The automotive industries–with the poorest capabilities to plan and manage suppliers–will suffer the most. The answers lie in investments in supplier development teams, the simplification of the bill of materials and product platforms, and analytics to forecast requirements based on consumption. Prepare for a slog. My reasoning?

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Podcast: Predictive Analytics and Digital Transformation Pioneer Knut Alicke

Requis

He is based in Germany, and, as a founding partner of the supply chain practice at McKinsey & Company , consults on a variety of supply chain-related business problems, including S&OP and advanced analytics. I found logistics, hardware logistics, and warehouse planning very interesting. We expanded into automotive.

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Use of Blockchain in Supply Chain & Logistics: Looking to Examples Across Industries for Better Understanding

GlobalTranz

Blockchain is entering a phase of development that will affect every aspect of supply chain and logistics management, ranging from procurement to forward logistics and beyond. Blockchain allows for the continuous tracking of information and improvement through data analytics.

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8 Examples of Kanban in Lean Manufacturing

Unleashed

Kanban is a process management tool that visualises the status of each job on a company’s radar, and controls the flow of production from customer requests back to the warehouse. Then, when the warehouse runs low in stock, it reorders from preferred vendors. What is Kanban? Catmull mentions in his book Creativity Inc.