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The reality of green energy: “green metal” supply chains won’t be able to keep up

NC State SCRC

Environmentalists and automotive companies have committed to converting all of their vehicles to electric power. Converting an entire supply base of automotive suppliers, who are all focused on building of combustion engine-powered vehicles, and moving them all to electric vehicles, will be a superhuman feat. The losers?

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

I am half-way through a spring speaking tour that will wrap-up in June with a speech in South Africa and Peru. The DuPont supply chain supplied products and services into the housing and automotive supply chains. In a similar vein, their forecasts for the automotive market would have been on new automotive sales and dealer inventory.

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The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF): What Is It and Why Does It Matter?

Resilinc

This framework aims to prevent detrimental supply chain shortages (such as the chip shortage the automotive industry faced during the pandemic) and improve response time when supply chain disruptions occur across the partnered countries. On May 23, President Biden officially launched The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF).