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Disaster recovery: Prepared for the worst?

Automotive Logistics

Probing more deeply, the company discovered several more instances of supply chains terminating in that region – in some cases, at factories that were the sole source of the components and materials in question. Altogether, output was suspended at seven of the company’s 22 plants. BMW has started to go further than supply chain mapping.

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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. This does not even account for the hundreds of watchdog groups that have grown on social media. That's only half the story.

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Testing times

Automotive Logistics

Earlier in June, Herbert Diess, chairman of the board of management of the Volkswagen Group and the VW brand, said vehicles would be delivered step-by-step as soon as the type-approvals required were available. Groupe PSA has also confirmed that all Peugeot, Citroën, DS, Opel and Vauxhall passenger cars are approved under the test procedure.