Tag: inbound

Gefco opens sequencing warehouse in Liverpool with a view to the future

Caterpillar puts Snodgrass at head of newly created division

Supply Chain Conference: Subaru transforms to lean at Indiana plant

In-house competence propels Volvo and Continental’s logistics

Groupe PSA report: A partnership of choice for Gefco and PSA

Having signed an €8 billion contract with its former owner PSA, Gefco is keen to emphasise its growing independence both within and outside the automotive sector

Groupe PSA report: Chef d’orchestre prepares to begin a new movement

PSA’s vice-president of supply chain, Francesca Gamboni, is bringing a new vision of supply chain management inspired by the kind of cross-departmental responsibility found in the FMCG sector. She reveals how this could improve PSA’s supply versus demand balance

Groupe PSA report: Connecting a supply chain par excellence

PSA’s vision of end-to-end supply chain planning will help support its global expansion and acquisition of Opel, as the combined operations roll out some 59 new model launches by 2021

Groupe PSA report: Engineering logistics partnerships

PSA’s partnership of choice with Gefco aims to reap benefits in purchasing, pooling and packaging innovation, as well as bringing further intermodal options

Maersk and IBM to introduce blockchain into global shipping industry

PSA touts European scale and supply chain synergy in Opel/Vauxhall acquisition

E-commerce automation: Ocado bags a revolution

Ford to implement Infor’s cloud-based WMS in Europe

Advanced analytics: Boiling down the benefits of big data

Mercedes-Benz switches from one to three LSPs in Alabama

Rolls-Royce to expand its technology and logistics centre

Robert Bosch 4.0: Keeping a close eye on technology

Cross-Channel freight: Trucks, tariffs and tunnel vision

General Motors: The new law of supply & demand

BMW and logistics automation: from prototype to (augmented) reality

India conference: Ford’s 4PL model transforms its logistics

Ten years in India: a look back at Tata Motors

Slovakian plant wins Magna World Class Logistics awards

UK sets Brexit timetable as carmakers worry about market access

JLR part 1: Ensuring logistics is not a victim of success

With so much expansion, change and inevitable risk still ahead of the carmaker, JLR’s director of global material planning and logistics, David Dyke, is pushing his department’s influence across the company and the supply chain to gain efficiency and further strength

BMW and Greer: A port far from any storms

Volkswagen to deepen common platform and component sharing across MAN and Scania

Eberspächer expands supply network for western Europe and north Africa

Gefco reports higher profits on modest revenue gains

Global conference: Know your supply chain better

Manufacturers and logistics providers at the Automotive Logistics Global conference are doing more to integrate their supply chains from end to end, and are keen to use data and analytics to anticipate problems before they arise.

Global conference: Penske and Novelis close the loop on aluminium

Opel/Vauxhall: Stable & ready to launch

Box of delights

Tesla’s supply chain set for a surge

Russia begins to ease restrictions on Turkish imports

Brexit would hurt wider European automotive logistics sector

Supply Chain Conference executive report: A connection worth more than the sum of its parts

Supply Chain Conference: Mexican and intermodal shockwaves

Supply Chain conference: No less global than ever

Tesla warns supply chain issues could scupper its growth plans

Tesla: ramping up and stepping down

Mercedes plans new engine plant in Poland, deepens supply chain in eastern Europe

Component makers start to invest as Ukraine’s economy picks up

Nissan unfazed by OEM plant closures in Australia

China conference: Debating which way to go from here

China conference: preparing for the new and the old, for growth and decline

China conference: catching up with digital and automation trends

China conference: New Silk Road gets back on the rails

Russia and Poland reach agreement on permit dispute…for now

All change for Aussie rules

UK-EU: Better connected

Binding ambition at Toyota Manufacturing UK

Europe Conference: Planning for more than the Zeitgeist in the supply chain

Grimaldi launches mixed cargo service between Houston and West Africa

Chinese companies forced to cut supplies to Russia

Haulage permit conflict will push up logistics costs

Mexico Conference report: On the borderline of change

Mexico conference: BMW’s global plans for San Luis Potosi

Mexico conference: reaching the exponential phase

BMW’s Mathias Wellbrock to take in-plant role in Mexico; Peter Hoerndlein to take global outbound position

No one size fits all

Focus on Spain part 3: Closely controlled growth

Nissan North America part 5: Carrying the weight of expectation

Nissan North America part 4: No outsourcing on the cheap

Nissan North America part 3: The search for southern comfort

Nissan North America part 2: Building on global experience

Yogayatan Group to build multipurpose port near Mumbai

Local suppliers struggle to gain scale in Brazil's fragmented market

Hyundai upgrades Russian plant ahead of Creta assembly launch

Lear doubles car seat production in the UK to meet demand from OEMs

Panel discussion: where is the industry heading?

Mercedes-Benz adds CKD imports to Thailand for local assembly

OEMs could share single system for import and export logistics

Panel discussion: working out the efficiency equation

Rhenus extends services between UK and Japan

Aston Martin opens warehouse and logistics hub near Gaydon assembly facility

Brazil and Argentina extend automotive agreement

Mercedes-Benz to invest “several hundred million” in global logistics realignment

Super Group moves into Europe with In Time Express Logistik acquisition

Ukraine emissions ruling will hit Asian imports

Honda part 1: Field of dreams

Yusen and TPCA: Perfecting a partnership

Skoda: Simply Clever logistics

Brazil: FCA goes the distance

GM chooses Argentine port of Rosario as regional hub

Russia conference: learning to grin and bear it

Volvo: Extending a 'second home' advantage

Transcorr merging with Venture Transport in US

Packing a punch in Mexico

Challenges and opportunities for automotive logistics in China

China conference: the big come to get stronger

To protect and serve

3PLs in China are raising the bar

Simon Stacy and Bob Mountain add logistics responsibilities at Honda Europe

VW reported making short sea shipments between Portugal and Germany

Russia: Running on empty?

Nissan starts work on logistics park in Smyrna

Europe conference: Are logistics companies ready for the future?

Future visions of European automotive logistics

Hyundai and Nissan join a wave of OEMs looking to export from Russia

Kintetsu World Express buying APL Logistics

Opel wins 2015 VDA Logistics Award

Mexico conference: Supply base set to grow and deepen

Mexico conference: US-EU deal without NAFTA 'doesn't make sense'

Connecting the many Mexicos – conference report

Editor's note: Planung und Ordnung

The cross-border crawl

Packaging case study: An intercontinental shift

Planes, trains and slow boats to China

Premium plant logistics

Aiming to go the distance

India conference: GST may finally be on the way

Chery JLR puts complex logistics plan into action

Audi special report: A question of complexity and convergence

The plethora of models, derivatives and options that has boosted Audi’s success over the past decade would not have been possible without an evolution in its logistics management and processes

Audi special report: Vorsprung durch Logistik

Audi is a major profit and innovation centre for the entire Volkswagen Group – and that includes its logistics processes, systems and infrastructure. The company’s in-plant and inbound logistics in Europe have helped to maintain high volumes and product variety despite space constraints in factories and have set the standard for global expansion in China, Mexico and elsewhere.

Audi special report: Managing from the centre and the periphery

As ever with a sprawling entity like the Volkswagen Group, power shifts between the centre and its satellites. In Wolfsburg, Konzernlogistik (group logistics), led by Thomas Zernechel, has responsibilities that include group programme planning, setting standards (including IT and returnable packaging) and transport tenders. It also manages bundled and network transport flows, including ocean containers and ro-ro shipping, and consolidated logistics for all suppliers in the transport network.

Audi special reports: A global outlook

Audi is exporting European best practices to support growing production ventures as far afield as China and Mexico

Audi special report: A fast, flexible network

Audi’s inbound logistics depends on tight planning and delivery adherence, while the carmaker is also exploring more consolidation within the Volkswagen Group

Audi special report: One crossdock, many brands

The Volkswagen Group’s European transport network is well engineered, however there is ambition for even deeper freight consolidation within it. After synchronising in-plant processes, the next stage in the NLK is to use crossdocks based close to supplier locations, which then feed multiple group plants in high frequency, full truckloads.

Audi special report: Strong at the core

The complex nature of Audi’s German production requires highly planned and coordinated in-plant logistics processes and infrastructure

Audi special reports conclusion: Experts at managing change

Preventing unnecessary complexity can be just as important as managing it in Audi’s supply chain