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Disaster recovery: Prepared for the worst?

Automotive Logistics

A few days after the earthquake struck, recalls Alexander Scholz, head of project management in BMW’s sourcing and supplier network, the carmaker discovered that some critical tier four semiconductors came from north-eastern Japan. If something happened, BMW wanted to know about it and wanted to be able to react to it to protect production.