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Logistics Technologies: 4 Benefits of RFID, AIDC, and IoT Based Technologies to Shippers

GlobalTranz

The supply chain is playing host to emerging logistics technologies and modern marvels of an industrialized society. Machines that can communicate are great, but they lack value if we cannot glean insight from products through technologies. Products are not necessarily built to provide us with information.

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Aptiv takes a global approach to mobility

Automotive Logistics

The latter continues to supply powertrain and engine management systems and components, including advanced vehicle propulsion, combustion systems, electrification products and software, as well as providing aftermarket solutions. . That focus was there in Delphi; it continues to be there in Aptiv,” he explains. . Tackling complex networks.

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Emergency response: Weathering the storms

Automotive Logistics

Depending on the severity of the event, production could be impacted for varying lengths of time. At Ford, for example, Bong points to the use of a sophisticated forecasting, monitoring and action tool that the company started using several years ago, which maps and monitors every node in the supply chain. “The

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Testing times

Automotive Logistics

Speaking earlier this year at a meeting of the Association of European Vehicle Logistics (ECG), Justin Cox, director of global production for market intelligence provider, LMC Automotive, said there was great variation in national adoption. “If there is already WLTP approval [on particular models], then there will be no impact.

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Disaster recovery: Prepared for the worst?

Automotive Logistics

Renesas Electronics, for example, the world’s largest manufacturer of automotive microcontrollers, was forced to cut production by 70%, shifting from its badly damaged Naka wafer fabrication factory in the Japanese coastal city of Hitachinaka to a number of other sites around the company. It’s a path since followed by others.

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Three Logistics Imperatives for Managing Uncertainty in 2022

Logistics Viewpoints

And, once again, it will be incumbent on logistics teams to deliver better, faster service, at a lower cost, to get products to market in the face of these continuing issues. As I write this in the fourth quarter of 2021, there’s just no telling what the new year will bring in terms of emerging logistics challenges.