BlueYonder

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I just returned from the Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain Conference in Detroit. This annual event explores supply chain management and how logistics can succeed in a fast-changing environment. I am feeling energized by what I learned and the people I spoke to while there.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Thomas, Ontario , upwards of a two hour drive from Detroit. This facility, which will represent VW’s first battery production facility outside of Europe , is to be located in the city of St. 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 Brain

MAY 17, 2018

Now Detroit wants a taste, too. Perhaps the greatest engineering feat in the auto industry this century isn’t mechanical but financial: getting people to spend luxury money on milquetoast vehicles — turning Ford and Chevy hamburgers into steak. The swankier brands have been torquing top prices quite a bit as well.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Regarding perspectives on these ongoing labor relations development, Jacobs observed: “ The UAW is attempting to return to a previous era of shared prosperity in the auto industry, a return to the treaty of Detroit that provided a period of shared economic development and progress in the auto industry.” automakers facing bankruptcy.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 5, 2014

This is impacting how you think about managing the network, and in procurement. As an example, Adam Ruff mentioned the big border crossing across the Detroit River. There is a chronic lack of drivers, and it is an unattractive profession for most people.

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ivalua

AUGUST 10, 2015

Quite a few of our customers are located in the Detroit area where we recently hosted a networking event featuring Nexteer Automotive. And don’t fret if they haven’t been brought up in a procurement or sourcing environment. These data management skills translate well across functions.

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ivalua

AUGUST 10, 2015

Quite a few of our customers are located in the Detroit area where we recently hosted a networking event featuring Nexteer Automotive. And don’t fret if they haven’t been brought up in a procurement or sourcing environment. These data management skills translate well across functions.

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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. Category Management Commodities forecasting Contract Management Global Supply Chain Procure to Pay Strategic Cost Management Strategic Sourcing Supplier Relationship Management Supply Chain Economics Supply Chain Strategy'

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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. theft and others. What can you tell us about it?

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QAD

JUNE 13, 2023

Had the Auto Supply Chain Prophets podcast been around in the 1980s and 1990s, I like to think that Cathy Fisher of Quistem, Jan Griffiths of Gravitas Detroit and I would have seen this tidal wave of supply chain disruption coming and played a role in safeguarding our industry. The benefits of this practice remain clear today.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 15, 2023

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

North America 52

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 24, 2023

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

Canada 52

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

billion facility will be located in Marshall, Michigan , about 100 miles west of Detroit. Ford and China based Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATX) have plans to build a domestic sourced battery production facility in Michigan. This planned $3.5

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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.

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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] ” Coining a term and defining the term are two different things.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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