Highlights | Automotive Logistics & Supply Chain UK

Ford's Stuart Clarke explains how digital twins and VR are helping improve material flow, reduce launch costs and accelerate manufacturing decisions.

Ford is rolling out digital twin technology and immersive virtual reality across its European manufacturing network to improve material flow planning, reduce costly launch rework and enable global collaboration. Stuart Clarke explains how the programme is reshaping engineering, logistics and future vehicle launches.

Automotive Logistics

Collaboration is the key to managing risk and building resilience, says JLR's Levent Yuksel

AT ALSC UK, JLR's Levent Yuksel highlighted how collaborating with partners and peers can help develop a more resilient and competitive automotive supply chain in the UK.

James McLoughlin

UK automotive logistics faces another dip as recovery stalls amid trade and competitiveness pressures

S&P Global Mobility forecasts another downturn for automotive production and sales in 2026, while trade uncertainty, EU industrial policy and logistics constraints continue to challenge UK supply chains.

Megan Kelly

How Smart UK re-engineered an EV-only supply chain for scale

At Automotive Logistics & Supply Chain UK 2026, Smart UK's Stephanie Budd shared how the brand rebuilt its China-to-UK finished vehicle pipeline, before joining an OEM-and-carrier panel on the capacity, EV-weight and forecasting challenges facing UK vehicle logistics.

Emily Uwemedimo

Inside Cummins and Unipart's drive to make reusable packaging the default

On the Red Sofa at Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain UK 2026, Rob Newing, returnable packaging operations leader at Cummins, and Lucie Dobeer, executive outreach director at Unipart, explain why the hardest – and most valuable – part of returnable packaging is the journey back.

Automotive Logistics

DSV's Adam Jones on how trusted logistics partnerships unlock greater agility for OEMs

As resilience becomes a greater priority for OEMs, the role of the 3PL has shifted, with trusted partnerships replacing transactional relationships.

Automotive Logistics

Dauch Corporation's Chris Payne on managing risk in the UK market and creating opportunities from crisis

At ALSC UK, Chris Payne from tier 1 supplier Dauch Corporation – formerly GKN Automotive and American Axle & Manufacturing – discussed the task of bringing the logistics activities of these two companies together, as well as the biggest challenges facing the UK automotive logistics industry and how to create opportunities from crisis.

Automotive Logistics

Highlights | Automotive Logistics & Supply Chain UK

Ford's Stuart Clarke explains how digital twins and VR are helping improve material flow, reduce launch costs and accelerate manufacturing decisions.

Collaboration is the key to managing risk and building resilience, says JLR's Levent Yuksel

UK automotive logistics faces another dip as recovery stalls amid trade and competitiveness pressures

How Smart UK re-engineered an EV-only supply chain for scale

Inside Cummins and Unipart's drive to make reusable packaging the default

DSV's Adam Jones on how trusted logistics partnerships unlock greater agility for OEMs

Dauch Corporation's Chris Payne on managing risk in the UK market and creating opportunities from crisis

SMMT: UK trade policy challenges for automotive supply chains

ALSC UK Day 1 wrap up

ALSC UK Day 2 wrap up