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All OEMs articles – Page 70
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FeatureFord opens first Myanmar dealership
Ford Motor Company celebrated the official opening of its first Ford dealership in Yangon, Myanmar last week. Located in the country’s commercial business centre, the new facility firmly places a Ford platform in the ever-expanding Asean region. Ford vehicles sold in Myanmar will be imported from Ford’s global production facilities ...
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FeatureToyota chooses K+N for Ukraine facility
Logistics and transport provider Kuehne + Nagle has signed a three year contract with Toyota to manage its spare parts warehouse in Ukraine. The company will support the supply of parts and accessories to Toyota dealers and service stations in the country, from a 37,000-square-metre share warehouse in Chayka near ...
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FeatureSouth Africa’s carmakers suffer a month of strike disruption in supply chain
Carmakers including BMW, GM, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Toyota and Volkswagen are still struggling to regain production levels following a four-week strike by members of the National Union of the Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) that affected component suppliers across the country. The strike ran alongside a three-week strike by union ...
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FeatureECG joins forces with AIAG
The Association of European Vehicle Logistics (ECG), which represents the interests of the finished vehicle carriers in Europe, has formed a strategic partnership with the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) in North America. According to ECG, the partnership has been set up to find common solutions for the issues facing ...
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FeatureSuppliers and buyers meet at Norbert Dentressangle event
Logistics and freight forwarding provider Norbert Dentressangle held its first Automotive Innovation Day at the Heritage Motor Centre in Gaydon in the UK last week. The gathering of major buyers and suppliers was also attended by the company’s own experts and was used as a platform to discuss emerging trends ...
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FeatureGlobal launches and economic absurdity
While any economic risks remain, carmakers are entering a phase of aggressive product launch and expansion. This is especially true at Daimler, which has set its targets on Audi and BMW’s luxury crown by 2020 with a slew of new models, plants and product refreshes. What’s significant about this plan ...
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FeatureBringing it back to North America
OEMs and tier one suppliers are increasingly prefering to shorten their supply chains, but in decisions on near-shoring or re-shoring, pragmatism will prevailIn this story... Nissan’s supplier parkEnd of the exodus Cost and currency Making the right decisionsA ceremony at the Canton, Mississippi vehicle assembly plant of Nissan this past ...
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FeatureIndia packaging – the next best thing to being naked
Short of parts arriving without any packaging at all, OEMs and inbound logictics providers in India are working together to ensure line-side delivery in the most efficient and cost-effective means possible Experts claim that the price of packaging, including its transport costs and impacts on the automotive supply chain, account ...
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Seeing logistics as more than 'waste'
OEMs building logistics centres at plants is a good sign for the supply chain management sectorCarmakers have historically viewed logistics as pure cost rather than as investment. One Ford executive, speaking at our European conference a few years ago, even went so far as to say the company saw freight ...
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FeatureGenpact to boost Jaguar Land Rover’s business management
Genpact Limited, which provides business processes including supply chain and procurement to a variety of industries, has announced its alliance with Jaguar Land Rover. Genpact will be helping the British carmaker to reduce its spending, create sourcing strategies and develop solutions for the OEM’s worldwide supply chain.Jaguar Land Rover’s end-to-end ...
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FeatureCaterpillar moves the earth for better distribution
The volumes and logistics capabilities of the world’s largest maker of earth-moving machinery are intertwined with global growth and government investment in its US-baseMoving high-and-heavy equipment, such as construction machinery, is a tricky and costly logistics task. Many products are outsized, requiring dedicated facilities and special permits to travel on ...
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FeatureRenault's milestone in Morocco
In the second part of our North Africa feature, Renault's logistics director for Morocco, Alain Joyeux (pictured below) reveals that it is full-steam ahead for the carmaker as it dominates vehicle production in Morocco and the wider regionIn a region afflicted by conflict for the past few years, Morocco, though ...
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FeatureNigeria prepares to expand auto industry
The Federal Executive Council of Nigeria has approved a policy to develop the country’s local automotive industry’s production and supply base, while limited foreign imports of vehicles both for government purchases and by increased tariffs. The Nigerian government’s Automotive Industrial Policy Development Plan seeks to increase assembly in the country ...
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FeatureComplexity meets coordination at Magna Europe
Magna Logistics Europe has increasingly taken a more integrated approach to engineering logistics across the tier supplier’s massive European network, including rolling out IT tools and concepts developed at contract manufacturing unit, Magna Steyr
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FeatureLogistics from concept to assembly at Magna Steyr
Magna’s contracting manufacturing arm, Magna Steyr, has developed a highly integrated approach to supply chain management, including the virtual design of logistics and supply concepts, some of which is being applied to other Magna plants
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FeatureGerman OEMs move up Gartner list
BMW and Volkswagen have moved up in the annual ranking of the top 25 supply chain organisations in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, compiled by research and advisory firm Gartner. BMW has moved up from ninth position to sixth, while the Volkswagen Group has made a bigger leap, ...
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FeatureDaimler's premium ambition
Egon Christ (left), senior manager for worldwide vehicle transportation and logistics at Daimler, reveals how the OEM plans to get the best from its logistics providers as it ramps up global productionIn this story...Global premium takeoverLogistics as a commodityPlanning and purchasingSmoothing distributionHub-and-spoke successTracking performanceNew ideas for NAFTAStandards in ChinaAlready the ...
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FeatureShake up for North American supply chain revealed at AL Global
“We see more production from Japan and Korea moving to Mexico and also to the southern US states,” said Michael Robinet, managing director of IHS Automotive Consulting. “We will soon see more European models coming over to North America out of the euro zone or South Africa to be closer ...
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FeatureToyota Material Handling chooses PSA-built Proace for UK fleet
Toyota Fleet Services has secured a contract with Toyota Material Handling UK (TMHUK) to supply the Proace medium-duty van for TMHUK’s national service fleet. It is the first major fleet deal for the Proace in the UK, which is built by PSA at its Sevelnord factory in northern France. TMHUK ...
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FeatureGrowth and other good problems to have in North American supply chains
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