2025 Overview and Key Themes


Adapt and deliver, together | Co-creating an agile, win-win automotive supply chain





Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain Europe 2025 will cover these critcal supply chain functions and more:

  • Inbound Logistics

    Discover how inbound logistics leaders are flexibly managing freight flows, consolidation centres and inventory to create efficiency and stability in production even as volume and product mix change.

  • Finished Vehicle Logistics

    Opportunities to improve finished vehicle logistics equipment and yard utilisation, visibility, quality and lead times across ocean, road, rail and intermodal networks.

  • Automotive Packaging

    Explore opportunities to increase efficiency and reduce waste in automotive packaging, including returnable container management, sustainable and recyclable materials, and more.

  • Supply Chain Planning

    Learn how leading organisations are developing capabilities and functions across programme planning, sales and operations planning (S&OP), trade and customs, procurement, demand planning, supplier and inventory management, to better coordinate automotive supplier volume planning and operations, logistics engineering and visibility, from tier-1 to tier-N suppliers.

  • Service Parts and Warehouse Logistics

    Discover the changing trends and requirements in service parts logistics and afersales parts distribution centres and warehousing including distribution models, robotics and automation, parts and material tracking, inventory and storage, parts distribution centres, buffer inventory, order fulfilment, demand planning and last-mile logistics.


The agenda will feature multiple streams of panels, presentations, interactive workshops and roundtables focused on these pillars:

  • Lean & Competitive Supply Chains

    Discover how leading manufacturing and logistics providers are driving operational excellence, delivering continuous improvement, controlling costs, and raising network performance, turning logistics into a competitive advantage and creating a supply chain ecosystem where all stakeholders can thrive.

  • Digital Strategies in Logistics

    How automotive supply chain organisations are harnessing digitalisation and IoT innovations, including real-time tracking, data analytics, machine learning and AI to increase transparency and proactively mitigate disruptions and optimise logistics flows.

  • Sustainable & Ethical Supply Chains

    How manufacturers and logistics providers are integrating sustainable transport equipment, greener materials and packaging, and ethical supply chain practices to both keep ahead of regulations and meet customer expectations.

  • EV & Battery Transition

    Stay on the pulse of Europe’s dynamic electric vehicle and battery charge, exploring shifting trends and volume trajectories, infrastructure investments, and short and longer-term logistics requirements, complexities, and opportunities across hazardous material handling, storage, recycling and transportation, and re-examine the role of logistics and supply chain in supporting EV affordability.

  • Navigating Nearshoring & Localisation

    Gain vital intelligence and expert analysis on the implications and opportunities for Europe’s automotive logistics sector as established European carmakers and new market entrants re-imagine their production footprints and localise their supply chains in a bid to boost resiliency, mitigate unpredictable logistics costs and tariffs, and reduce carbon emissions from long-haul transport. Learn more about the logistics and inventory requirements to develop and scale more localisation and new productions in Europe, including for EVs, battery and critical components.