Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In this update we want to alert our Supply Chain Matters global readership to our latest upcoming podcast episode. Multi-industry supply chain teams continue to focus on the final aspects of supporting and executing Q4 and 2023 business goals.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Ford has elected to partner with South Korean based battery manufacturer SK Innovation , in building and the joint operating of three battery production facilities, two in Kentucky and one in Tennessee. The combination of industry transformation to EV supply and production networks facilitated by U.S. Both of these U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 6, 2022

Employees have had to deal with more than two years of the impact of the pandemic on the auto industry, including the ongoing global wide shortages of semiconductor devices and select high tech components along with double-digit increases of supplier parts. Tesla reportedly did not respond to press requests for added comments.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2023

As expected, with this industry’s just-in-time inventory management practices, the implications of the work stoppages cascading across individual automaker’s tiered supplier networks. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Stay tuned.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 15, 2021

These interviews are often the best source of information and are not published. Secondary data sources are published available databases, reports, websites, and so on. Examples might be a “state of the industry” report purchased from a consulting company or a publicly available database such as the Census of U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog provides an overview of our 2024 annual prediction themes for industry and global supply chains. Global-wide manufacturing levels as depicted in the J.P.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Supplier driven innovation was also a major theme at the Procurement Leaders meeting in Miami this spring. I also wrote about this in the context of “ heedful interrelating ” between people working in the same supply chain. This is how innovation ultimately occurs.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In this third Supply Chain Matters reader update, we highlight the ongoing supply chain and manufacturing implications of the labor strike involving the three U.S. big three automakers with implications to their supply networks vs. prior strategies in targeting just one. unionized auto companies. Stay tuned.

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