8-10 April 2025 | Waterfront Beach Resort, Huntington Beach, California
Join the conversation | #FVLNA
8-10 April 2025 | Waterfront Beach Resort, Huntington Beach, California
Join the conversation | #FVLNA
8-10 April 2025 | Waterfront Beach Resort, Huntington Beach, California
Join the conversation | #FVLNA
Get ready to re-imagine logistics
Creating a faster, agile, more competitive vehicle supply chain
The North American finished vehicle supply chain must be ready for significant change amidst rising uncertainty, and this year’s conference will once again help vehicle logistics leaders and experts to navigate and succeed in a dynamic environment.
Over the past years, vehicle logistics has proved it’s resiliency. Now, North American vehicle logistics and distribution must be ready to adapt capacity, equipment, transport and network plans in line with customer demand and regulations, and to maintain the highest efficiency, delivery performance and quality as possible. FVL North America 2025 will unpack these changes and how the industry should respond.
Leading decision makers and experts will share how finished vehicle logistics can enable the industry’s transformation and support carmakers’ transition to electric vehicles, digitalisation, sustainable transport, more agile and, ultimately, leaner operations.
Finished Vehicle Logistics North America 2025 will offer unparalleled insight from industry leaders and market intelligence, featuring keynote presentations, panel discussions and workshops addressing real-world issues and offering innovative and implementable solutions.
Join the event to discuss and learn more about:
- How vehicle logistics leaders and experts are generating greater flexibility within their networks without compromising on cost, service levels, delivery times or quality;
- How carmakers are prioritising quality performance across their vehicle distribution network, leveraging data analytics to identify and resolve damage incidents more efficiently, managing software updates and working with new and existing providers to improve standards;
- How carmakers and logistics providers are deepening partnerships, improving transparency and trust and working ever closer to drive the collective competitiveness of the vehicle supply chain;
- Opportunities for leaner, more efficient finished vehicle logistics processes and functions, including yard management, transport utilisation, reducing dwell times, streamlining port and railhead processes;
- How manufacturers and logistics providers are integrating sustainable transport equipment and balancing investment and partnerships for short-term emission reductions with longer-term decarbonisation strategies;
- How the finished vehicle supply chain can harness digitalisation and advanced software, including real-time tracking, data analytics, machine learning and AI to increase transparency and proactively mitigate disruptions and optimise logistics flows;
- The role vehicle logistics can play in reducing the overall costs of electric vehicles, and deliver more cost competitive products to the market.
Meet some of our 2024 speakers
Prashant Swadia
Director of Global Logistics Purchasing
General Motors
Anu Goel
Executive Vice-President, Group After Sales & Services
Volkswagen Group of America
Lisa Kline
Vice-President of Vehicle Planning and Logistics
Subaru of America
Raúl Gamboa
Head of Logistics, Production Control and Production Systems
BMW Group Plant San Luis Potosí
Paul Roosen
Vehicle Logistics Planning Manager, North American Vehicle Logistics
Ford Motor Company
Steven Jernigan
Senior Director Supply Chain Management
Nissan North America
The Defining Tracks of our 2024 event
Finished Vehicle Logistics North America 2024 discussed these critical areas:
New look network
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North America’s long term production footprint is evolving with new manufacturing hubs in the US emerging and Mexico in particular growing in strategic importance, shifting the longer-term trade lane requirements of new and established OEMs. At the same time, capacity constraints and bottlenecks at ports, railheads and border crossings are forcing carmakers to redesign their immediate supply chains. Understand how manufacturers are taking a holistic approach to network design to ease congestions and create extra capacity and are working with new and existing partners to keep the vehicles moving via new flows and alternative transport modes.
Data-led logistics
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At a time when near-instant solutions are required, the growing importance of and opportunities within technology and digital supply chains has never been higher. From streamlining inventory to vehicle tracking to improving production pipeline and sales visibility, hear how data and digital platforms are helping logistics leaders and providers ease congestion and maximise the network’s capacity and ability to deliver. Industry experts and technology specialists will delve into the groundbreaking capabilities and innovative tools providing end-to-end transparency of the supply chain and data in real-time, enabling a truly dynamic network.
Combating the capacity crunch
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The vehicle logistics sector has never been more strained and under pressure to perform with no over-night solutions for longer-term labour and equipment shortages. Whilst new vessel and trucking capacity is on the horizon, today’s vehicle logistics professionals and providers must be more creative, more dynamic and more open-minded to mitigate the critical network capacity constraints, lower order fulfilment and reduced velocity of rail services, bottlenecks at ports and railheads, and combat an ever-growing unpredictability of events like extreme weathers, border crossing closures and labour crises. From quality management processes to driver apps, expanding dealer delivery times to alternative transport modes, cars in containers to dedicated charters, hear the latest innovative solutions, outside-the-box thinking and quick wins keeping the vehicle logistics network flowing.
Electric vehicles on the move
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Global carmakers continue to invest in and expand their EV portfolios, increasing the throughput of typically heavier and larger vehicles in the network, affecting load factors and compounding driver, labour and equipment shortages. As OEMs and vehicle logistics providers transition from planning to reality, uncertainty remains over government policies, charging standards, carrier weight limits, training and other best practises to ensure the safe, reliable, efficient and competitive delivery of electric vehicles to market. Hear the lessons learnt so far and critical insights on how the industry’s
EV pioneers are successful moving electric vehicles through the network and what further investment in equipment, infrastructure and competencies are still required.
Delivering net zero
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The path to net zero emissions is long, complex and expensive but year-on-year federal and state governments, and transport regulators impose stricter environmental targets meaning carmakers, infrastructure operators and logistics providers must collaborate, invest and identify methods to make significant progress on their mission to decarbonize the vehicle supply chain. Finished Vehicle Logistics North America will address both short-term solutions for reducing emissions and longer-term strategies for reaching carbon neutrality, bringing industry and officials together to pave the way forward. Experts and leaders will discuss green investments in alternative fuels and new equipment across ocean and road transport, renewable energy and electrification at ports and processing centres, utilising multi-modal strategies and maximising the rail network’s low emission credentials and more.
Partnering for the long-haul
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In such times of transformation and disruption, traditional partnerships are no longer fit for purpose. Carmakers and their vehicle supply chains must increase the trust and transparency and operate as a collective rather in silos to raise the performance of the network. FVLNA will explore the changing dynamic between customer and provider, the new requirements and expectations, and crucially how stakeholders can take a new approach to collaboration that drives investment in equipment, talent and services, and leads to more innovation across the vehicle supply chain that delivers on environmental goals, competitiveness, reliability and customer satisfaction.
Our 2024 delegates included:
President & Chief Executive Officer · Chief Financial Officer · Chief Operating Officer · Chief Commercial Officer · Vice President, Aftersales & Vehicle Logistics · Senior Vice President, Logistics · Vice President, Supply Chain · Vice President, Finished Vehicle Logistics · Director, Production · Director, Purchasing · Director, Global Customs & Trade Compliance · Finished Vehicle Operations · Port Director · Import Export Manager
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