Audi’s logistics part 1: Prepared for a new reality
By Christopher Ludwig2018-01-04T12:41:00
The recent history of the Audi brand is written deeply into the company’s supply chain and logistics, and can be read across the carmaker’s expanding geography, plant and parts handling operations
It is here we see the complexity of Audi’s production network, which continues to see significant investment and transformation. Today, it produces vehicles in its own or Volkswagen Group plants across Europe, Asia and the Americas, including the launch, in late 2016, of production of the new Audi Q5 in San José Chiapa, Mexico. The company is also in the midst of the most aggressive phase of new model launches in its history, from the 2016 start of Audi Q2 SUV production at its plant in Ingolstadt, at its headquarters in Bavaria, to the more recent launches of the flagship Audi A8 and the Audi A7, both in Neckarsulm, south-west Germany…