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FVL North America Awards finalists revealed

Automotive Logistics

The awards, which are organised into nine separate categories, celebrate excellence in the outbound sector. VPS – BMW Manufacturing Company, Fluor Corporation, TransDevelopment Group, and VPS for BMW Manufacturing Company’s hail protection system in Spartanburg. Accelerated Services – Succession planning and training.

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Audi México: Risk and reward

Automotive Logistics

At the same time, Mexico was a totally new place to work for Audi personnel, which meant negotiating, recruiting and training in a different culture and in a different language. The factory is now in its second full year of production with some notable successes already gained, not least in the management of outbound logistics. .

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Innovation and smart technology: Why BMW is driving both

Automotive Logistics

Within the carmaker’s production halls, tugger trains or smart transport robots (STR) are increasingly used to transport parts, with 30 STRs set to be in operation this year. The device announces an approaching tugger train via a vibration alarm. Enhancing outbound visibility. Autonomous and wearable technology.

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Third-party logistics: Future fields of opportunity?

Automotive Logistics

With a relatively small number of specialist carriers providing ships, barges, trains and road transporters, and serving a relatively small number of vehicle manufacturers, this sector has proven infertile ground for the likes of 3PLs that offer bundled services across a mix of transport and storage assets that they often don’t own.

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Driving value into the supply chain

Automotive Logistics

This year’s Supply Chain Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, was held alongside the inaugural automotiveIT International conference last week in an effort to promote the kind of communication and cross-fertilisation of ideas that could help to solve these issues. “We Speeding up response times. New technology, new collaborations.

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Gefco: Full of get up and go

Automotive Logistics

On the outbound side of the business, Gefco has seen double-digit growth on an organic footing over the last three years. 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.

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Automotive Logistics Awards – Europe winners announced

Automotive Logistics

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. FVL top quality award winner: Seat – Quality distribution strategy.