All Service parts articles – Page 7
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ArticleToyota part 3: In-house quality applications
Toyota is using its in-house truck fleet for service parts distribution as a competitive advantage, while also trialling innovations including a new smartphone app for driversToyota is fairly unique in having its own in-house fleet of trucks for parts distribution. Toyota Quality Parts Express serves major routes out of the ...
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ArticleThe supply chain – a holistic approach
Now more than ever, businesses must improve the efficiency of their supply chain in order to maintain a competitive advantage. All too often companies target storage, handling and transport to reduce costs, but this is just the tip of the iceberg when aiming for a truly effective end-to-end supply chain. ...
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ArticleE-commerce: Online and on the road
E-commerce in automotive is starting to penetrate spare parts and vehicle purchases, with implications for OEMs, dealers, LSPs and customersIn the early days of eBay and Amazon, consumers marvelled at their own boldness. Buying on the internet was a step into the unknown: sending money to strangers to purchase items ...
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ArticleToyota part 2: A complex stock-in-trade
Toyota’s warehouse network and operations are strategic to maintaining the costs and efficiency of its spare parts deliveries, especially considering the scale, volume and diversity of parts and order lines that they handleThe volume moving in and out of Toyota’s huge main parts centres each day is simply dizzying: the ...
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ArticleCeva opens aftermarket PDC for Magneti Marelli
Ceva Logistics has opened a local parts distribution centre (PDC) in Italy for Magneti Marelli’s Aftermarket Parts and Services division. Magneti supplies systems, modules and high technology components for the automotive industry.The 1,600 sq. m facility is located at Interporto Padova, near Padua in northern Italy, and will serve Magneti ...
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ArticleGardner replaces Grady in lead role at FCA’s dealer network
Peter Grady (left) will retire from his role as vice president, Dealer Network Development at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) – North America at the end of this month.Grady began his career with American Motors (AMC) in 1984, three years before AMC was bought outright by Chrysler. He went on to ...
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ArticleToyota part 1: NAPO organisation and 'One Toyota'
Understanding how Toyota's service parts division in the US is organised, and looking to the implication of the carmaker's consolidation in TexasAs vice-president and general manager of Toyota’s North American Parts Operations, Neil Swartz (left) manages the full scope of the service parts and accessories supply chain across Toyota Motor ...
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ArticleToyota part 1: Cornerstone of a strong supply chain
Toyota’s unique ‘two-tier’ supply chain in North America is designed to smooth distribution and ensure fast, uninterrupted supply to dealers, distributors and export marketsThe view outside the Toyota parts centre in Ontario, 50 miles east of Los Angeles, is pure California. Palm trees line the road in either direction and ...
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ArticleAmerican vistas of the Toyota way: A report in five parts
As Toyota’s largest global market, maintaining a fast, reliable supply of service parts and accessories across North America is critical to the carmaker’s business model. Spare parts sales add incremental profit to dealers and to Toyota alike, while their availability is essential to the company’s brand promise, from supporting vehicle ...
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ArticleEurope conference: Keeping pace with e-commerce and technology in the aftermarket
Consumer trends, emerging technology and the need for more efficient logistics to deal with both, are set to have a huge impact on the automotive logistics aftermarket. Consumers are not visiting dealers as often but that is not an indication of a drop in sales as much as it may ...
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ArticleGreener moves to senior supply chain role at Advance Auto Parts
North America aftermarket parts provider, Advance Auto Parts, has appointed Todd Greener (left) as senior vice president of supply chain. He moves over from GE Appliances where he was general manager of appliance distribution operations.Advance said that Greener would be instrumental in executing its system-wide supply chain integration and transport ...
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ArticleBMW opens two service parts distribution centres in US
BMW has recently opened two regional parts distribution centres (RDCs) in the US – in California and Texas – which are both now fully operational.The first RDC in Redlands, California, is serving BMW dealers in the Southwest US, including in Southern California, Southern Nevada and Arizona, as well as those ...
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ArticleWeiss replaces Billiet in SCM role at Fiat Chrysler in Europe
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has confirmed that Peter Weiss (left), currently vice-president of International Operations, based in Detroit, will be moving to a new role in Europe, replacing Luc Billiet, head of supply chain management in the EMEA region at FCA.
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ArticleCeva expands in Canada with facility in Richmond, BC
Ceva Logistics is expanding its operations in Canada with a move to a new 5,000 sq.m facility in Richmond, British Colombia that will provide air and ground freight management, and consolidation services, for a range of industries, including the automotive aftermarket. The company is moving to the new location on ...
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ArticleFCA opens Mopar distribution centre in Toluca
The Mexican subsidiary of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has officially opened a parts distribution centre in Toluca to support the supply of Mopar service parts to the dealer network. The 45,000 sq.m facility, in which the company has invested $13m, will be able to store and move 65,000 parts.Management of ...
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ArticleJCB renews aftermarket contract with Norbert Dentressangle
Construction equipment maker JCB has extended its aftermarket contract in the UK with logistics provider Norbert Dentressangle (ND) for another three years. The multi-million pound contract involves delivery to a network for more than 100 dealers across the country.Operating five nights a week, ND makes evening collections of stock ...
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ArticleAutoliv to supply 25m airbag parts in wake of Takata recall
Automotive safety systems supplier, Autoliv, has signed agreements with a number of OEMs for the supply of airbag inflators in the wake of the recalls affecting parts supplied by rival supplier Takata.Defects with airbags manufactured and supplied by Takata were first recorded in April 2013 and since then, approximately 17m ...
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ArticleTNT upgrade on German deliveries could benefit automotive aftermarket
Global logistics provider TNT has upgraded its international service to Germany to provide guaranteed next-day delivery on shipments, including for heavier freight. The company said the upgrade will help companies, including those in the automotive sector, to achieve more efficient supply chains and services to Germany.“Improving service to customers is ...
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ArticleZF Services opens headquarters and logistics centre in Shanghai
ZF Services (China), the aftermarket division of German automotive components supplier, ZF Friedrichshafen, has recently opened a 7,500 sq.m facility in Shanghai that includes its new headquarters, along with an expanded logistics warehousing centre and remanufacturing base.The company said the base will coordinate all of ZF Services’ business in China ...
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ArticleOpel to handle its own distribution centres in Germany from 2016
GM has announced that the operation of its Opel parts distribution centres (PDCs) at Bochum and Rüsselsheim in Germany will be reintegrated into the Opel division as of February 2016. They are currently operated as part of a joint venture with Neovia Logistics Supply Chain Services in which Opel has ...