Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 12, 2022

Our invited guest in this podcast conversation is Terri Hiskey, Vice President of SCM Product Marketing for Oracle , where she leads the strategic development and execution of supply chain and manufacturing-focused content, programs, and assets.

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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. Both of these U.S. states support to right-to-work laws that make it very difficult for labor unions to organize workers.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 6, 2022

During that time, this blog was of the view that Musk really needed a highly seasoned and experienced leader of supply chain and production operations, and task that executive with fixing the company’s start-up as well as longer term capabilities for production volume ramp. Elon Musk is an obvious exception.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2023

There remains the opportunity for both parties to shed past practices and come up with innovative approaches that place workers in the position to be able to share both in the future profits of their employers and plan for the skills impacts and opportunities involved in the transformation to EV and hybrid vehicle production.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Real-Time Data will also be key in managing risk and disruption, given what was a particularly horrific hurricane season this year. Supplier driven innovation was also a major theme at the Procurement Leaders meeting in Miami this spring. 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.

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