2025 overview and key themes
Get ready to re-imagine logistics | Creating a faster, agile, more competitive vehicle supply chain
- How vehicle logistics leaders and experts are generating greater flexibility within their networks without compromising on cost, service levels, delivery times or quality;
- How carmakers are prioritising quality performance across their vehicle distribution network, leveraging data analytics to identify and resolve damage incidents more efficiently, managing software updates and working with new and existing providers to improve standards;
- How carmakers and logistics providers are deepening partnerships, improving transparency and trust and working ever closer to drive the collective competitiveness of the vehicle supply chain;
- Opportunities for leaner, more efficient finished vehicle logistics processes and functions, including yard management, transport utilisation, reducing dwell times, streamlining port and railhead processes;
- How manufacturers and logistics providers are integrating sustainable transport equipment and balancing investment and partnerships for short-term emission reductions with longer-term decarbonisation strategies;
- How the finished vehicle supply chain can harness digitalisation and advanced software, including real-time tracking, data analytics, machine learning and AI to increase transparency and proactively mitigate disruptions and optimise logistics flows;
- The role vehicle logistics can play in reducing the overall costs of electric vehicles, and deliver more cost competitive products to the market.
