GlobalTranz

JULY 30, 2018

Even JP Morgan, Microsoft, and Google, reports Jonathan Chester of Forbes , are working to increase blockchain development and innovation, and supply chain leaders need to understand how the use of blockchain in supply chain and logistics will bring about lasting change and improvements in efficiency.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The supply chain investments of the last decade focused on improving black & white processes–order-to-cash and procure-to-pay. Companies invested in improving visibility capabilities to improve functional efficiency of logistics, manufacturing, and supply. My view is that we are in phase 3 of the pandemic. My prediction?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Argentus is a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement. Check out What are the Top 7 Trends in Last Mile Logistics? The logistics industry is worth over $8.1 Argentus is a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement. The post Amazon and Uber’s Impact on Logistics!

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I use this example to illustrate the challenges (or, perhaps, the futility) of making supply chain and logistics predictions. So, here is my invented future for 2015, starting with my most audacious prediction: Google will acquire a logistics service provider (3PL) and/or a logistics software vendor. The Google TMS?

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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. Delivery of these innovative vans began in July 2022. All rights reserved.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 30, 2023

Barra has mentored young people while they studied science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and diligently climbed the corporate ladder from an entry-level engineer to an influential leader in the automotive industry. Brian Cornell Brian Cornell is the CEO of Target Corporation, an American retail company.

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Resilinc

JULY 26, 2022

While reduced demand caused most of the decline, supply chain issues also figured prominently, with supply chain disruptions continuing to shift from “component shortages to logistics disruptions,” according to Gartner. And tech firms are getting into the automotive industry. While reporting 76% YOY growth in profit and 43.5%

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

The Experts’ Choice of the Top Online Logistics Resources. So I went straight to the source and asked consultants, trade reporters, Wall Street Journal reporters and others, what their go-to logistics and supply chain sources were. Experts’ Choice: Supply Chain and Logistics Email Newsletters. Ti Logistics Briefing.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 20, 2020

The automotive and farm equipment manufacturing giant’s Spares Business Unit (SBU) witnessed lost sales revenues due to stockouts and tight working capital as a result of high inventory investment. M&M SBU has been able to increase service levels by 10%, reduce customer response times by 40%, and grow business revenue by 10%. Challenges.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 11, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights Rivian Automotive’s reported operational performance in the latest quarter, but at the same time continued challenges in the months to come. We have to add that the automotive sector as a whole is now benefiting from an easing of prior key component shortages, especially semiconductor devices.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 18, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights reports that Rivian Automotive fell short of its 2022 vehicle production goal and that several top executives have departed the company, including the company’s purchasing head. Both models have rather expensive base list prices, but the vehicle themselves feature a lot of technical innovation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

Concurrent supply chain planning is required for the company to navigate uncertainty and expand into new markets of automotive, computing, and connective intelligent edge. For Qualcomm, it is all about innovation. Qualcomm’s background is rooted in smart phones and cell phone communication.

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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. market also comes with logistical challenges, hence the stated need for a U.S. Shipping new vehicles from Austria to the U.S. based dealer network.

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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. That is especially the case when dealing with engineering design product innovation. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For the global automotive industry specifically, an ongoing global wide shortage of needed semiconductor devices has constrained or delayed vehicle output levels. In the case of Tesla , it is a business model that shuns a nationwide or global dealer and automotive vehicle delivery and post-sales maintenance services network.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Green supply chain history: The origin of Supply Chain Management can be dated back to the early 20th with Henry Ford who vertically integrates the automotive supply chain and organizational practices. These innovations represent a strong commitment from through strategic environmental plans towards sustainable Supply Chain Management.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 26, 2022

Panasonic , which serves as one of the lithium-ion automotive battery suppliers to EV auto maker Tesla , outlined plans to construct a reported $4 billion electric vehicle facility in DeSoto Kansas that is expected create upwards of 4,000 jobs. production plans, each with a designated branded automotive partner.

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HICX Solutions

MARCH 16, 2023

Anand started working in Procurement and Supply Chain at an early age in his family business. His father started the logistics and distribution company on the East coast of India.  These included Cooper Tire & Rubber in the automotive sector as well as nine years with Philips Healthcare. They are not AIs.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 14, 2023

This tech provider was more recently named as the Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023. Reportedly, capital raised in this latest round to accelerate product innovation, including insights and tracking related to ESG and sustainability risks across a company’s extended supply chain. million in Series A financing.

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 18, 2021

Distribution management includes forecasting, transportation, warehousing, and delivery within the larger universe of logistics and supply chain management. Distribution management is an integral part of logistics. Logistics software. Successful distribution management utilizes: State-of-the-art information systems.

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DynaSys

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Spoiler alert: huge innovations ahead! This includes production planning, procurement planning, and goes all the way up to demand planning. We have carried out several such projects with our customers, particularly in the food and beverage and the automotive industries. What is the role of data science in the supply chain?

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 20, 2023

As a comparison, the EV automaker’s automotive gross margin, excluding regulatory credits reached a peak of 25.1 The Q3 results included the reporting of a 44 percent decline in quarterly net income and a resulting 7.7 percent operating margin in the latest quarter. percent in the year earlier quarter, and have declined since.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Supply chain innovation is slowly simmering in the face of radical disruption. The transformational wave is slowly transforming the automotive industry from a focus on selling “rides” versus the purchase of an automobile. A confluence of technology drives innovation. Innovation is redefining business processes.

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Supply Chain Movement

AUGUST 14, 2014

Swiss company, Weidmann Plastics Technology has more than 70 years experience in injection molding and has a range of unique and innovative technologies that allow plastic materials with different flexibility, elasticity and strength to be joined in one process step. The third team is project purchasing. What do you use for an agenda?

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Instead, vehicles are sold online and then shipped directly to consumers globally relying on domestic and global logistics service providers leveraging available transportation and logistics services networks. For the cost inflation and supply side, third quarter automotive gross margin was reported as 27.9

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Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 13, 2014

Procurement Transformation Summit. 4th Automotive Today & Tomorrow. Supply Chain Innovations. Logistics & Supply Chain Conference. Pharmaceutical Logistics & Cold Chain. S&OP Innovation. Logitrans, Transport Logistics Exhibition. Last updated on February 25th, 2014. 29-31 January.

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The Network Effect

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Today I want to talk about the challenges faced by today’s automotive suppliers, and why a network model for their supply chain can help. Supply chain organizations within the automotive supplier industry contribute to manufacturing excellence in many ways, including quality, cost, and delivery to their OEM and subsystem customer base.

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Requis

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

25 years ago I finished my studies in mechanical engineering and my master’s thesis was on plant layout and logistics planning. I found logistics, hardware logistics, and warehouse planning very interesting. We expanded into automotive. We are all really proud of what we made: an award winning logistics system.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As 2023 came to a close, the overall implications were manufacturers with non-unionized operational workforces in the automotive and other sectors initiating added hourly wage hikes to stave off labor union targeting efforts as a result of these prior successful wage gain actions. automakers Ford Motor , General Motors and Stellantis.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

While these benefits are real and significant, there is an even bigger opportunity and value proposition that many software vendors and users still don’t get, especially when it comes to cloud solutions focused on supply chain, logistics, and other cross-enterprise business processes. Watch my video interview with Sanish for more details.

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Requis

JUNE 25, 2020

Susie Bodnar is part of the generation that is driving supply chain innovation forward. She is a 15-year logistics veteran, educator, consultant, and an active volunteer with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP). This shows how logistics had adapted to the new conditions in a very short time.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 10, 2013

Automotive. Logistics and Distribution. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Procurement Blog. Newsroom Investors Careers. Infosys Labs. Industries. Industries. Aerospace and Defense. Communication Services. Consumer Packaged Goods.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

A recent report by Frost & Sullivan, “The Future of Parts and Service Retailing in the Automotive Aftermarket” , predicts that by 2025, 10 to 15 percent of all global parts sales will be made online. We have written quite extensively about the role of robotics in manufacturing as well as the impact on supply chain and logistics.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

Automotive. Logistics and Distribution. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Online providers are disrupting the retail industry because of innovation, in the true spirit of the Clayton M. Christensen book, The Innovators Dilemma.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

However, commonly used KPIs used by supply chain executives are usually focused on logistics performance (e.g., Research from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in procurement shows that organizations without formal SRM programs report 121 percent longer supplier lead times. What can you do?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As a result, organisations have had to rely on a larger number of suppliers and third-party logistics to meet this demand. Procurement, activities such as strategic sourcing, are one of the main processes in the supply chains that can generate a positive impact on companies by giving them a competitive advantage in the market.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We set a goal that 50% of our target would come from continuous improvement and the other half would come from breakthrough innovation and thinking. Our approach simply breaks accountabilities and goals across the areas of Manufacturing, Logistics/Network Optimization and Ingredients/Packaging.

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