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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. The main take aways from the presentation earlier this year were the following: The auto industry has made supply chain risk management a priority since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

Other ways we support experiential learning include hosting external student case competitions, touring logistics facilities, and attending industry conferences. They not only have to present the models to demonstrate their understanding, but they also have to relate the models to real companies.

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Reshoring in America: The Future Outlook, Current Hindrances & Issues, and Ways to Stimulate Reshoring

GlobalTranz

Harry Moser, Reshoring Initiative Founder and President, offered insights to economic developers at the 2013 IEDC conference , including some of the points listed below. Further a hindrance to Reshoring in AMerica, the STEM and skills shortage presents another impediment to U.S. And, after building the new U.S. manufacturing.

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The quest for greater unity

Automotive Logistics

One of the main priorities for inbound supply chain managers from a packaging perspective is the proper management of returnable containers and packages so they are delivered as quickly, efficiently and economically as possible. This technology will also help greatly with increased visibility and inbound part identification.”.

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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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Gefco: Full of get up and go

Automotive Logistics

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 November last year, for example, it handled its first dedicated block train of containerised parts between China and France.

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Trucks to attention

Automotive Logistics

The key thing is that regulators appear to be broadly supportive, seeing the obvious benefits that platooning can confer.” . Their vision is of a lead truck with a human driver, and then autonomous vehicles following behind, like a railway train – and not just within Singapore’s port operations but on the public highway.”.