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ArticleExecutives on the move:Johann Schuberthan, Jügen Maidl, Karl May, Heath Holtz, Ben Shain, Avril Palmer-Baunack, Alan Kelsey, Stefan Asenkerschbaumer, Philippe Gilbert
Johann Schuberthan will retire from his role as BMW’s head of Inbound Logistics and Logistics Planning at the end of this month, with a successor (yet to be announced) in place by the beginning of June this year. Schuberthan had been in the role for four years. BMW has ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move: Scott Mize, Robert Pitt, Emmanuel Boudon, Larry Pavey, Michael McClelland, Julie Krehbiel, Patrick Bauer, Gilles Cudia, Monika Ribar, Peter Ulber, Matt Yearling, Yasunobu Hirag
Scott Mize, previously national manager of Vehicle Logistics at Glovis America, has taken up a new role at Nissan North America as manager of Purchasing. Prior to his short tenure at Glovis, Mize was manager of national transportation, Mazda North America Operations. There have also been moves at the ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move: Conway Jeffress, Greg Henninger, Hiroto Saikawa, Anthony Laydon, Anthony Laydon, Connie Tang,
Conway Jeffress has settled into his new role as global director of automotive at freight forwarding and logistics provider, Jas Forwarding Worldwide. Jeffress was previously vice-president of automotive at Panalpina but said that because of its restructuring of industry verticals and executive responsibilities, the time was right to make ...
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ArticleBo Andersson on being a leader
He describes on video the challenges of turning round GAZ and the approach he took
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ArticleExecutives on the move: Karl May, Roland Gentsch, Craig Jasienski, Glenn Edvardsen, Reinhard Lange,
As part of wider organisational changes at BMW, it has been confirmed that Dr Karl May, formerly head of logistics, design and supply networks, has taken up a new position in outbound logistics at the carmaker as head of Vehicle Distribution and VDCs (vehicle distribution centres). In his previous ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move: Andreas Renschle, Wolfgang Bernhard, Tetsuo Iwamura, Hidenobu Iwata, Dan Smith, Jerry Chenkin, Marty Coalson, Monica Franco, Tom Jendrowski, Markus Machers, Tex Gunning, Berna
Daimler is extending leadership contracts for Dieter Zetsche and Thomas Weber, as well as assigning new responsibilities for Andreas Renschler and Wolfgang Bernhard.The carmaker said Zetsche’s contract as chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler and head of Mercedes-Benz Cars would run until December 31, 2016. It is ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move: Hena Kausar, Jürgen Maidl, Frank-Peter Arndt, Peter Hörndlein, Kate Betsworth, David Giandinoto, Neil Scott, John Turner, Jaap Bruining, Lucas Vos, Quintin Kendall
Hena Kausar, assistant general manager at Maruti Suzuki India (pictured right), has been awarded the title of Logistics Woman of the Year 2013 by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) as part of its Achievers Award and Talent Hunt programme to recognise supply chain and logistics industry ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move: Diego Pistone; Luc Billiet; Markus Schaefer; Jason Hoff; Jeffery Bullard; Srecko Mühling; Peter Lowet; Jim Steer
Diego Pistone has left his position head of Fiat Chrysler’s Parts and Service division for the Europe Middle East and Africa region (EMEA) to take up a new role as CEO of Fiat Services and Holdings, the adminstrative arm of the Fiat Group. He has been replaced by Luc ...
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ArticleRyder's Tom Jones to retire
Ryder’s senior vice president and general manager of Supply Chain Solution (SCS) is retiring this week after approximately 25 years with the company and 35 years in the logistics industry, much of it focused on the automotive supply chain. He was most recently responsible for leading Ryder’s automotive, retail, ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move: Thomas Banholzer, Markus Gichert, Luca Rossi, Marcelo Di Benedetto, Mike Pilkington, Andrew Hetzel, Steve Maltby, Stephen Hucklesby, Ray LaHood
In early January Thomas Banholzer took over as manager of network design and procurement for vehicle logistics at Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA), Daimler’s US division with responsibility for Mercedes-Benz and smart passenger cars, and Sprinter vans. He took over the role from Markus Gichert, who has returned to Daimler’s headquarters ...
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ArticleRobert Strain, Eddie Wright, Frederick Beelaerts van Blokland, Petra Küster, Andreas Renschler
Robert Strain has moved from his role as head of daily operations at General Motor’s Global Logistics and Containers division to become vice president of the Automotive Sector in Asia Pacific for Ceva Logistics. He fills the role left by Dave Dudek who moved to a new role in ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move
GM’s logistics director in South America Fred Roldan has taken on additional supply chain responsibilities in a new role as South America supply chain and logistics director. The move follows the departure of Wlamir Giardini who was South America supply chain director but has decided to leave the company. ...
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ArticleIndustry mourns loss of John McLaughlin
The shipping and logistics industry, and its press, are mourning the death of John McLaughlin, a veteran journalist and press advisor, who died on Christmas Day 2012 following a short and sudden illness. He was 54 years old. McLaughlin wrote for more than two decades on the shipping ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move
Following the departure of Bob Socia as vice president, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain (read more here), General Motors has named Grace Lieblein (pictured) as his successor, responsible for its purchasing activities and supply chain and logistics operations worldwide. “Grace’s track record is a diverse and very successful one ...
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ArticleIndustry mourns loss of Jim Moore
It was with great sadness that Automotive Logistics learned of the passing of Jim Moore this week. Moore was vice president, Supply Chain Excellence, at Ryder System and had more than 25 years’ experience in the supply chain industry. He died on Saturday night after a lengthy illness. ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move
Following last week’s news that Dr Detlef Trefzger has resigned as DB Schenker’s member of the Board for Contract Logistics/SCM, it has been announced that he will take up a new role on the management board for Kuehne + Nagel with global responsibility for the Contract Logistics business unit. ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move
Bruno Sidler has stood down from his role as chief operating officer at Ceva Logistics and is moving to a new COO position in February next year at market expansion services group DKSH, which focuses on the consumer goods, healthcare, performance materials and technology sectors in Asia.“DKSH will benefit from ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move
Anthony Clevio, until recently operations manager at General Motors North America and Intercontinental Logistics, has moved on to another position at the carmaker as book manager within the Order Fulfillment organisation, part of Sales, Service & Marketing at GM. Here he will be responsible for order management, including forecasting, ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move
As part of some widespread leadership changes at Ford, Joe Hinrichs is moving from his position as group vice president and president of the Asia Pacific Africa to take up a new role at the beginning of December this year as executive vice president and president of the Americas.Hinrichs ...
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ArticleCeva's Pattullo steps down as CEO
In a surprise move, Ceva Logistics’ CEO John Pattullo is retiring from the company at the end of this week and will be replaced by Marvin O. Schlanger, Ceva’s current Chairman of the Board. Pattullo will continue to serve on Ceva’s Board of Directors.“When John came to Ceva, he ...