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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 company works hard to meet the demanding requirements for quality, innovation, and cost from their OEM customers. Steve: You had engaged in extensive training but mentioned that more needed to be done.

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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. One such project is with Mercedes-Benz.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 4 -10)

Logistics Viewpoints

This was certainly another strange year, as the in-person conferences I usually look forward to were once again moved to a virtual environment. However, the on-demand nature of the virtual conference makes it easier to attend more sessions, which gives me more opportunities to learn from my peers. percent to $223.6 percent to $290.7

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13 Warehouse Types: Definitions, Functions & Examples

Conger

Companies often choose private warehouses because of the high degree of control that they confer over the handling and storage of goods. No need to hire, train, and manage staff as the warehouse owner is responsible for these. No need to train employees on equipment or software since the warehouse provides management services.

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Navigating an uncertain future

Automotive Logistics

The finished vehicle logistics sector needs to find better ways to communicate and collaborate to meet the challenges of an uncertain future, delegates at this year’s Finished Vehicle Logistics North America conference in California were told in March. Marcus Williams reports. The move to develop an existing rail facility and 5.25-acre

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Navigating an uncertain future

Automotive Logistics

The finished vehicle logistics sector needs to find better ways to communicate and collaborate to meet the challenges of an uncertain future, delegates at this year’s Finished Vehicle Logistics North America conference in California were told in March. Marcus Williams reports. The move to develop an existing rail facility and 5.25-acre