Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

Those materials flow into over 170 factories in over 40 nations. First, the supply chain group truly needs to understand buying behaviors and key attributes of their customers. A supply chain is mapped, where components are source from, how they flow through a supply chain to factories and out to customers.

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Women in Trucking

APRIL 27, 2020

By Kelly Radi, raditowrite.com I was up in New Brunswick, Canada, working with a group of women in the trucking industry (shout out to WIT members Day & Ross!) You connect us from farm to factory to hospital to grocery store and beyond. Conference speaker, WIT guest blogger, and award-winning author. You are superheroes.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 15, 2017

The French automaker Renault, for example, was forced to shut down factories across Europe. Tanguy Deschamps, a 38-year-old who was working at the factory when the virus hit, said the alarms were failing to sound whenever workers tried to alert others to crooked or improperly welded parts.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Aniruddh Srivastava, Head of Demand and Supply Planning at Mahindra & Mahindra, said at Blue Yonder ’s Icon user conference that artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms are the cornerstone of their strategy. That is every machine, factory, DC, mode of transportation, supplier, product, material, etc.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The shortage projection, released on the final day of the ATA Management Conference & Exhibition at the San Diego Convention Center, is expected to grow over the next decade, Costello said. The company’s new battery manufacturing facility will be in the same industrial park as its future “MegaMicro” factory, Canoo said.

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Logistics in War

JUNE 29, 2023

This is the first part of a presentation given at the Australian – New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference during June 2023. This conference convened to discuss supply chain resilience at a time of strategic competition. By David Beaumont. But there’s more to be concerned about.

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The Logistics Academy

JUNE 8, 2017

Winners Revealed at Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, AZ, Unilever Retains the Top Spot in Rankings as Amazon Joins the “Masters” Gartner, Inc. This year we have an impressive group of leaders with new lessons to share, including two more recent entrants from the high-tech and consumer product sectors.”.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 15, 2018

Francesca Gamboni , vice-president of supply chain, PSA Group. Dennis Kolberg , head of research, innovative factory systems, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Bob Mountain , head of vehicle logistics, Honda Europe. Mike Dickinson , general manager automotive, Industry Forum. Want more information?

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The best of the best also differentiate their recruiting approaches – for example, by generation or potential groups such as career changers or. Following the UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheik, consumers, politicians, and business partners are calling on companies to act quickly. foreign workers.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 3, 2018

It was the first factory the German carmaker had set up outside Europe and the first that it was exclusively managing overseas (the two factories in China are joint ventures with local partners). Audi’s Mexican factory is the first in the Volkswagen Group to implement RFID technology for the complete material and container flow.

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

By Jeff Berman, Group News Editor ·. Speaking on a recent conference call hosted by investment firm Stifel, Costello said that there are a few drivers of the current solid freight activity, including consumer spending, construction activity, manufacturing activity, and inventory levels throughout the supply chain. “[L]ooking

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Automotive Logistics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Its facility is surrounded by its main tier one suppliers from Hyundai Motor Group, such as Hyundai Mobis, WIA and Powertech. The Puebla plant is the second biggest VW factory outside of Europe, with a production capacity of 2,500 units a day. Other OEMs, too, are looking at growth in Mexico and abroad. Höegh eyes the challenges.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 22, 2018

Longer-term, strength in consumption, factory output, and construction should keep truck freight tonnage solid for the quarters ahead.”. L]ooking at the over-the-road TL and LTL markets, I like to look at factory output,” he said. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. growth this year and over 3% growth next year.”. About the Author.

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

factory outside a zone,” according to a Sept. 6, where NAFTZ stressed that final products manufactured and substantially transformed in a U.S. are legally products of the United States, “just as if they had been produced in a U.S. consumption entry filings at the time of withdrawal from the FTZ.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 3, 2019

BMW, for example, has started to use dronesat its factory in Leipzig to count external storage bins for parts – work that was previously done by personnel. mpu_ad]Meanwhile, Skoda is trialling an autonomous drone to identify and count containers outside its factory in Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 15, 2018

At the press conference in Paris in January, Nadal said the company was opening up to new industrial sectors including aviation, manufacturing, energy, life sciences and healthcare, among others. In 2017, it saw a recovery in the automotive sector in Europe and a shortage of transport capacity in the market.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 16, 2018

The current state of inventories, as it relates to the supply chain, was laid out in detail by American Trucking Associations (ATA) Chief Economist Bob Costello on a recent conference call hosted by investment firm Stifel. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. Thus, companies overshot the inventory cycle. About the Author.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2018

The Volkswagen Group has become a prime example. Thomas Zernechel, head of group logistics for the carmaker, recently told Automotive Logistics that the use of micro-services and apps as add-ons to its ‘backbone’ system was becoming more strategic for the group. Not so monolithic any more.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2019

The same trends are currently playing out in Hungary, where several important investment projects have recently been launched (see AL CEE conference report ). . Groupe PSA, for example, has recently confirmed that it plans to begin electric engine assembly in the Trnava plant in Slovakia. “We Bottlenecks remain.

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Automotive Logistics

JUNE 19, 2018

That marriage of technology and talent was one of the central points of discussion at this year’s Automotive Logistics Europe conference, held in Bonn, Germany, last week. Subbe said it was important to move people into the new jobs that were coming with the spread of automation, and that included all age groups. Digital acceleration.

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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The extent of the increase will vary from plant to plant depending on the level of localisation achieved by each one in terms of components sourcing, as well as any steps taken by the government to reimburse factories for growing expenditure on customs charges, Serezhenkin says. .

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Automotive Logistics

JUNE 12, 2018

During the event on June 12 – held on the eve of this year’s Automotive Logistics Europe conference – former Opel, Fiat and BMW vehicle designer Chris Bangle handed out a total of 14 awards covering every aspect of inbound, outbound and aftermarket logistics. Highly commended: BMW Group – Connected distribution project.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2018

Seat, the Spain-based Volkswagen Group brand, wants to introduce methods that will help outbound logistics to follow more of the ‘just-in-time’ process in production, which could mean a change in how transport resources are allocated and planned. But change could be just around the corner. That’s DHL’s strength, it’s our DNA.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 5, 2024

This announcement comes on the heels of Blue Yonder’s acquisition of flexis AG, offering factory planning, sequencing and slotting capabilities, and Doddle, offering returns management and reverse logistics solutions. Supply chain software vendor Descartes Systems Group has acquired OCR Services Inc., billion Walmart, retail: $2.1

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 24, 2015

To reiterate that reshoring is more than just hype and a very important topic for us to consider the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study found that 54% of companies with above one billion in revenues are now considering reshoring. Also, the majority of factories that could leave may have already gone. safety requirements.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

The move will coincide with its complete exit from automotive production in Europe, including the closure of its UK factory in Swindon. Just over 1m of those were cars, with light commercials accounting for just under 430,000, largely from Ford’s vast van factory complex in Kocaeli, on the coast of the Sea of Marmara.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

Indeed, there is cause for concern about Chinese factories’ ability to fulfill orders, given the massive uptick in COVID cases since the harsh policy was lifted. Other reports say that people are sickening quickly and in enormous numbers, leaving factories short-staffed at the worst possible time—Chinese New Year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 30, 2021

“As the reopening continues, bottlenecks, hiring difficulties, and other constraints could continue to limit how quickly supply can adjust, raising the possibility that inflation could turn out to be higher and more persistent than we expect,” Powell said during a news conference. Will this begin to affect demand in retail and hospitality?

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Another Friday, another flight home from a conference. This time I’ll be returning from enVista’s FUEL 2018 conference where I am giving a keynote presentation this morning on Defining Your Own Logistics Competitive Weapon. Stay tuned for my takeaways from the conference in a future post. million.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 1, 2019

Outlining a reimagined supply chain, Kuehn said an OEM factory could push inventory through to the fulfilment centres, rail transport could have automated loading and unloading, and regional fulfilment centres could provide online ordering of the vehicle and then automated delivery to the customer.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 1, 2018

billion factory near Charleston, South Carolina, in June. Daimler, the German group which includes Mercedes-Benz, reported Q2 net profit of €1.82 The shifts are happening just as Volvo is preparing for a fourth-quarter production start on the S60 mid-size sports sedan at its first plant in the US. billion ($2.13 billion), down 27.3%

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Absurd” safety inspections are causing wait times as long as 24 hours in lines that stretch for 14 miles, Mexico’s biggest trucking group said in a statement October 8. battery factories proposed by Detroit automakers into national contracts with the UAW, all but assuring they’ll be unionized. billion of goods stuck waiting in Mexico.

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