Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 18, 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. The factors that reportedly influenced this automaker were the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Labor unions are not a fabric of Asia based suppliers and technology providers, and barring existing high tariff levels, Chinese auto makers seek to eventually export their EV vehicles to overseas markets such as Europe and other countries. based production and supply network strategies in the coming years. automakers facing bankruptcy.

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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

MARCH 15, 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.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Rick Freeman joined Resilinc in July after more than a dozen years in procurement and supply chain for semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology. Logically, this makes sense, but for procurement leadership, this is a new mode of evaluating costs and benefits. Europe, and elsewhere around modern slavery and forced labor.

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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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