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How diversity powers automotive resilience and innovation
Discover how automotive leaders are leveraging diversity in talent and strategy to drive innovation, navigate supply chain challenges and stay competitive.
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Jeffrey Morrison on General Motors vision for supply chain collaboration
GM’s shift to electrification is driving innovation and evolving supplier partnerships across automotive supply chains.
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BMW’s Michael Nikolaides on a localised, digital supply chain
BMW’s global logistics head Michael Nikolaides leads a steering committee across production, sales and supply chain to support strategic decisions.
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Closing the digital divide at Ford
Ford’s product line manager for material and vehicle logistics IT, Becca Adam, explains the carmaker’s implementation of digital twin concepts
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An end-to-end logistics mission at DP World
Bill Garrett, head of the automotive vertical at DP World, talks about the company’s transition to become a global provider of end-to-end logistics services
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Volkswagen Group Logistics series: Simon Motter on securing the supply chain
Head of Volkswagen Group Logistics Simon Motter is making sure the supply chain can master disruption and improve resiliency as well as deliver on goals for electrification, sustainability and cost.
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Maxime Picat, Stellantis talks strategy and influencing supply chain and manufacturing design
The chief purchasing and supply chain officer reveals how Stellantis will improve supplier relations, plan the battery supply chain, localise where it makes sense, and invest in logistics
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How Volvo Cars made sustainability a way of working
Volvo Cars has been at the forefront of supply chain sustainability ambitions for uyears. Now, the OEM is ready to be more vocal about where it wants its competitors to join in.
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Who will tackle North American rail capacity shortages?
Hyundai Glovis’ director of logistics Darren Acker breaks down the chronic industry issue of delayed vehicle delivery in North America.
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‘Performing while transforming’ BMW's logistics in Spartanburg: Special series
BMW’s largest plant is investing in digitalisation and people to prepare for electrification and manage capacity, according to VP of logistics Oliver Bilstein.
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Talking from the top of GM’s supply chain: Jeff Morrison is investing in change
General Motors’ vice-president for global purchasing and supply chain talks resilience, transforming battery and chip resilience, and why finished vehicle logistics is now one of his top global concerns.
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Investing in the long term: Interview series with GM’s Jeff Morrison, VP global purchasing and supply chain
GM’s global purchasing chief, Jeff Morrison, has forged partnerships across chipmakers and battery materials. Now his team wants to regain more control especially in vehicle logistics, where the industry faces many bottlenecks.
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Is Artificial Intelligence taking over the supply chain?
Yossi Sheffi, professor of Engineering Systems at MIT discusses the advantages of using AI in logistics, as well as the costs and risks that come with it.
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Transform, connect and flex: JLR’s end-to-end supply chain upgrade
Barbara Bergmeier is leading an upgrade of systems, skills and supplier relations across JLR’s supply chain as the OEM aims to build more EVs and reduce emissions across the supply chain
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The logistics of resiliency for General Motors
GM’s global logistics chief Edgard Pezzo explains how the OEM has invested in visibility, capacity and collaboration to protect its supply chain and production.
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Q&A: Mike Riggs, CEO, Jack Cooper
US finished vehicle haulier Jack Cooper reorganised its business under Chapter 11 proceedings last year and exited the court process on November 1. In an exclusive interview Victoria Johns talks to CEO Mike Riggs about the company’s ‘picture-perfect bankruptcy’ and why Jack is definitely back
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Mena aftermarket: Playing a bigger part
Overall economic growth may be lacklustre, but automotive aftermarket sales are on the increase in the Middle East and North Africa…
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Q&A: Sulaiman Pallak, GM Middle East and North Africa
In the absence of a production hub, OEMs operating in the Middle East must import both vehicles and parts. GM’s head of purchasing and supply chain for Africa and the Middle East tells Automotive Logistics about the challenges and opportunities in the region…
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Stretching to the limit: How Sollers and Lorus move finished vehicles across Russia
For the Russian carmaker Sollers the importance of effective logistics hardly can be overemphasised. With a distance of up to 8,000km (4,971 miles) between its main production assets in European Russia and the Far East, a widespread network of more than 100 tier one suppliers both in and outside Russia, plus worldwide export operations, costs and lead times within the supply chain clearly make a big difference to the company.
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Distribution Down Under: How AIVs are smartening up Toyota’s new parts centre
Japanese carmaker Toyota has now commissioned what it describes as “the most advanced automotive distribution centre in Australia” as part of its strategy of transitioning from manufacturing to purely logistical operations in the country. Intelligent robots and sophisticated design are helping the carmaker to achieve new levels of warehousing efficiency…