Talking Logistics

JANUARY 24, 2018

It was also when Hamilton Carhartt & Company was founded by its namesake and began producing overalls with two sewing machines and a half-horsepower electric motor in a small Detroit loft. Mexico, and Europe. Today, Carhartt has global operations in the U.S.,

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Steve described his experience this afternoon over pizza and sodas in Detroit. In Europe they may not trust you at all, and only much later begin to approach something like trust. When I first started at Ford in the early 80s I was working with Jack Hughes on plastic parts. In other cultures in Asia, trust may never really occur.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 24, 2023

This facility, which will represent VW’s first battery production facility outside of Europe , is to be located in the city of St. Thomas , Ontario , upwards of a two hour drive from Detroit. Plans reportedly call for the facility to be operational by 2027. Factors that reportedly influenced this automaker were the U.S.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 19, 2022

But the efficiency benefits were so compelling that eventually “every car maker from Detroit to Wolfsburg adopted a version” of the Toyota system. “Each day a stream of trucks would pull up to Toyota’s factories and disgorge just enough to cover a day’s worth of production.”.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 18, 2022

But the efficiency benefits were so compelling that eventually “every car maker from Detroit to Wolfsburg adopted a version” of the Toyota system. “Each day a stream of trucks would pull up to Toyota’s factories and disgorge just enough to cover a day’s worth of production.”.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 17, 2022

But the efficiency benefits were so compelling that eventually “every car maker from Detroit to Wolfsburg adopted a version” of the Toyota system. “Each day a stream of trucks would pull up to Toyota’s factories and disgorge just enough to cover a day’s worth of production.”.

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IQMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Our customer, Somaschini North America LLC, understands ISO 14001 requirements first-hand as a manufacturer of high-precision, high-volume steel timing gears for some of the world’s leading commercial automotive brands, including Detroit Diesel and Daimler Germany. Complying with ISO 14001 has represented a serious investment by Somaschini.

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DynaSys

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Says speaker Josh Linkner, jazz guitarist and founder of digital promotions company ePrize (now HelloWorld) and Detroit Venture Partners. The strategy of Churchill and the Allies underwent many changes, based on actual battlefield results, before they completely liberated Europe. “Who says supply chain cannot be a hotbed of creativity?”

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Europe, and elsewhere around modern slavery and forced labor. You’ve run it twice, once at Wayne State University in Detroit and once in San José. But there are types of risks that can instantly block access to a supplier for a time or even permanently. Resilinc: And the antidote to that poison in your supply chain?

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2016

You go from Europe to the Americas to Latin America to APAC with your transportation needs and there are all sorts of very specific requirements, whether tactical, operational or strategic. Walter holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Michigan State University and attended The Detroit College of Law.

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QAD

JULY 7, 2020

If you wanted to go straight – and really, really fast – then Detroit muscle was what you needed. . ” In Europe or Asia, it would have been perfectly fine to describe a car as a 2.2 During those years, the muscle car discussion was more of a nod to the fantastic cars of the 1960s and the first couple of years of the 1970s.

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QAD

JULY 7, 2020

If you wanted to go straight – and really, really fast – then Detroit muscle was what you needed. . ” In Europe or Asia, it would have been perfectly fine to describe a car as a 2.2 During those years, the muscle car discussion was more of a nod to the fantastic cars of the 1960s and the first couple of years of the 1970s.

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QAD

MARCH 26, 2024

This trajectory sets a daunting challenge for OEMs, which are estimated to require approximately a 9% pure BEV fleet by 2026, a steep climb from the roughly 3% achieved by the Detroit Big Three (D3) in 2023. Europe, while ahead of the U.S. in terms of charging infrastructure, still faces its own set of challenges.

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QAD

APRIL 18, 2024

Its slightly revised trajectory still sets a daunting challenge for OEMs, which are estimated to require approximately a 9% pure BEV fleet by 2026, a steep climb from the roughly 3% achieved by the Detroit Big Three (D3) in 2023. Europe, while ahead of the U.S. in terms of charging infrastructure, still faces its own set of challenges.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 18, 2022

I’m in Detroit about 4 and a half to 5 hours away, depending on the traffic. When we scale ourselves outside India, Europe and the US, people love that workflow BPM tool, and the flexibility and ability to digitize their manual processes along with getting into invisibility. Then we started with Europe and US.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The deal — which would fall short of a legally binding agreement — seeks to settle a dispute that started when President Donald Trump slapped tariffs on metals imports from Europe, citing risks to national security. battery factories proposed by Detroit automakers into national contracts with the UAW, all but assuring they’ll be unionized.

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