BlueYonder

OCTOBER 6, 2023

” – Sir Winston Churchill Having just returned from the 2023 Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain Global conference in Detroit, these words are very fitting to encapsulate the essence of the event. “Never let a good crisis go to waste.”

Waste Reduction 81

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

As expected, with the existence of this industry’s just-in-time inventory replenishment planning, the implications of the work stoppages are cascading across individual automaker’s supply networks. Today, China based EV automakers and suppliers have notable cost advantages in materials sourcing, production and labor costs.

Negotiating Skills 59

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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. I was involved in inventory control area on what they used to call “residual parts”, which were leftover parts that you ended up trying to sell into the service parts organization. They would bid and source only part at a time!

Purchasing Skills 60

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2016

But with a global TMS on a SaaS platform, you can connect your procurement relationships with suppliers and the costs all the way through your network and your customers – and then tie that data back to a single platform to get real business intelligence with a global perspective. What does it mean to finance? What does it mean to operations?

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Yet all of the functions that we now associate with Supply Chain have been around for a very long time: Planning, Inventory Management, Logistics, Procurement and Purchasing, Warehousing and many more.”[2] To make that point, Mortson lists ten different definitions for the term from various sources.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

According to reporting from business broadcasting network CNBC , “ Tensions are rising and accusations are flying between the Detroit automakers and United Auto Workers as the union threatens to expand U.S. Thus is the continued political backdrop of these talks. plant strikes.”

Negotiating Skills 64

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