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All Emergency logistics articles – Page 29
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FeatureUK weather puts logistics on ice
As Antarctic temperatures hit the UK last week, with snow and ice bringing many parts of the country to a standstill, automotive logistics companies have been forced to implement a number of measures to protect vehicles, find alternative routes and ensure the safety of drivers and staff. It is the ...
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Make way for the little guys
Good time for a Plan CA market splintering rather than consolidatingThe US car carrier sector is in transition, and while many companies are disappearing, carmakers and 3PLs are giving more business to smaller, niche players for certain routes, reports Barry CrossThe US automotive outbound sector has seen chronic failures among ...
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FeatureGrooming the yard
Specialised software on the riseTagging to trackIncreasing productivityThe road aheadIT systems, whether hardware or software, are beginning to be more sophisticated for managing flows in and out of vehicle yards. Jim Romeo reportsWhile the automotive inbound and outbound supply chain has become more complex, the IT systems used to track ...
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FeatureTNT targets South America
TNT is shifting gears to accelerate in the automotive aftermarket and emergency logistics sector, with particular expansion in the booming South American regionA sizeable spare parts and emergency freight businessBolstering BrazilAdvancing in ArgentinaAlthough TNT, which is best known for its €11-billion ($16.5m) revenue mail and express delivery business, sold its ...
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FeatureBack in the fast lane
Premium freight services nearly disappeared at the outset of the financial crisis. Now recovery and inventory cautious-carmakers have brought back the need for speed, but under new terms.Off a cliffSigns of recoverySame shipments, different dayCentralised purchasingLower cost optionsA cautious recoveryWhat will electric vehicles mean for air refight?To reduce inbound inventory ...
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FeatureGiving logistics in India a new name
Mahindra & Mahindra’s chief operating officer, Rajesh Jejuriker (pictured right), believes logistics and ‘demand’ chain management have improved the carmaker’s customer satisfaction ratings. Christopher Ludwig speaks to him and head of supply chain, SK Krishnan (pictured left), about M&M’s groundbreaking order-to-delivery system.Logistics ranks high in the management chainThe production and ...
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FeatureTime-critical recovery to continue next year?
In just over a week the annual time-critical movement of consumer goods par excellence will be getting underway from the North Pole for the budget price of a glass of egg nog, or milk and cookies left by the chimney. But time-critical movements of automotive parts have also seen a ...
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FeatureOutbound could start to look like inbound
A shift to lower finished vehicle inventories could mean that outbound logistics in Europe will more closely resemble the low stock, highly time-critical operations of inbound logistics for production, according to the head of logistics for Opel/Vauxhall, Elliot Swiss. The change in strategy could lead OEMs to procure vehicle logistics ...
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FeatureLogistics nightmare for US dealers
Many dealer lots were depleted across the US yesterday as the ‘Cash for Clunkers’ scheme finished a day later than it was originally due to end. A sign of good business for carmakers and dealers, but many who saw the CARS website crash on the final day jeopardising their remaining ...
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FeatureA different face for premium freight
Several asset-light premium freight third party logistics providers to the automotive industry in Europe have told Automotive Logistics that, following several months when business nearly disappeared, their revenue and performance is now beginning to match or outpace that of 2008, although the processes around such freight appear to be gaining ...
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FeatureToyota takes emergency measures at Malmo
Toyota has reached maximum capacity at its Malmö vehicle logistics centre in Sweden following a regional sales slump and has been forced to charter a PCTC vessel for temporary storage from Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics. The Morning Glory will be used to store a maximum of 2,500 vehicles of various models ...
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FeatureAre logistics providers being left on the shelf?
Although German carmakers have expressed willingness to offer aid to suppliers in an effort to avoid disrupting production, it is more likely such measures would be taken for part suppliers rather than logistics companies which find themselves in financial trouble, Automotive Logistics has learned. The failure or bankruptcy of ...
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FeatureKomatsu delivers the goods with NYK Logistics
In a fully outsourced three-year contract, commercial vehicle maker Komatsu Europe has set up a new emergency regional parts distribution centre (RPDC) with NYK Logistics near Lyons. The centre is part of Komatsu’s global plan to hit a 95 per cent next morning delivery target. “These RPDCs are emergency order ...