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All OEMs articles – Page 95
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FeatureFiat-Chrysler alliance holds promise for LSPs
The global strategic alliance between Fiat and Chrysler, in which Fiat currently holds a 20% stake in Chrysler in return for the US carmaker’s access to Fiat's fuel-efficient vehicle technologies, is unlikely to bring any substantial change in the sourcing of local content but it could bring in a higher ...
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FeatureGM keeps Opel but what now for LSPs?
GM’s announcement last night that, after months of wrangling over the reluctant sale of Opel/Vauxhall, it would instead keep it probably brings as many new questions for its supply chain and logistics service providers as it might answer others. While it’s clear that GM’s European operations will remain an integral ...
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FeatureChina could impose import tariffs on US vehicles
Chrysler, Ford and General Motors are meeting with the American Automotive Policy Council this week to discuss China’s trade investigation into US carmaker subsidies which is due to begin today and could result in tariffs being imposed on the companies’ vehicle imports. Following a petition from automotive companies in China, ...
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FeatureMAN everywoman awards open in December
This year’s MAN everywoman in Transport & Logistics Awards will be open for entries from 1 December. It will be the third year the awards have been held in association with Skills for Logistics, the Sector Skills Council for the UK's freight logistics industries, and MAN Truck & Bus UK, ...
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FeatureAvtotor launches Opel assembly in Kaliningrad
Russian carmaker Avtotor Holding has launched production of Opel cars at Kaliningrad with GM Europe supporting both inbound and outbound movements to and from the plant by rail. The company is beginning with assembly of semi-knockdown kits of the Astra and Zafira which are being brought by rail from GM ...
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FeatureA climate of change at Jaguar Land Rover
Jaguar Land Rover is moving to the next stage of its inbound logistics realignment with DHL Supply Chain and the much-needed cost savings of the collaboration look likely to benefit the UK automotive industry more widely. Since April, when it took over the full inbound contract for JLR and implemented ...
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FeatureGM revises pay plan for suppliers
From 1 November this year GM will start paying its parts and logistics service providers every week rather than every 47 days in a move to improve the company’s cash flow and better support struggling suppliers. Many suppliers awaiting payment have been forced to rely on credit lines to cover ...
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FeatureHonda Indiana exports Civics to wider markets
Honda’s Greensburg plant in Indiana has shipped its first units of the Civic sedan to Mexico as part of a wider export strategy that also includes markets in Latin America as well as the Caribbean and US territories in Puerto Rico, Guam and Saipan. The first 270 units will arrive ...
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FeatureFord begins Romanian production with CKDs
Ford has begun production of the Transit Connect light commercial vehicle at its new plant in Craiova, Romania and will be using the same suppliers that it uses for supply to its Turkish plant in Kocaeli. The Connect vehicles are brought in CKD kits from the Kocaeli facility and are ...
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FeatureTriumph opens tender process for 3PL supplier
Triumph Motorcycles is currently reviewing its European distribution operation and has posted a competitive tender process to find a third party logistics supplier. The company has been using Gefco since 2003. Gefco started working with Triumph by providing a cradle rental service as well as storage and distribution in Italy, ...
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FeatureToyota reports on sustainable logistics in Europe
Toyota has reported an overall reduction of 25,836 tonnes in the C02 emissions from its logistics operations in Europe in 2008. The company’s European Sustainability Report 2009 states that emissions from logistics decreased from 236,481 tonnes in 2007 to 210,645 tonnes in 2008. Along with a manufacturing reduction of 78,000 ...
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FeatureNissan goes direct to the dealer
Höegh Autoliner’s recent delivery of over 1,500 Nissan vehicles to the Port of Gdansk for delivery to the Russian market also marked a new logistics strategy between Nissan Motor RUS and Russian LSP Major Auto Trans. Since 2004 Major Auto Trans has cooperated with Nissan’s Russian division on international movements, ...
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Nissan brings Styles to Mexico
Chris Styles, Nissan Americas’ Director of Purchasing for Logistics, Aftermarket/Accessory Parts, is taking on an additional role as Director of Purchasing at Nissan Mexicana. The new position will see Styles relocate to Nissan’s Mexican headquarters in Mexico City to oversee his additional responsibilities. Talking about his new role to Automotive ...
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FeatureHonda sales boost means export contract for Indian JV
Honda Siel Cars India – the joint venture between India’s Siel Group and Honda – will start exporting engine components to Japan from October from its plant at Tapukara in Rajasthan which opened last autumn. The company plans to export 54,000 sets of crank-shafts and connecting rods over the next ...
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FeatureHarley takes over at crucial time for Ford MP&L
Ford’s Stephen Harley officially assumes his new post this week as the OEM’s Executive Director for Global Material Planning and Logistics (MP&L) and for North American Parts Supply and Logistics (PS&L). It is an interesting time for Ford and a particularly crucial period for the MP&L organisation, as the company ...
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FeatureLogistics challenges for Toyota in Texas
Following Toyota’s decision to stop production at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant in Freemont, California from next March, the carmaker is facing logistics challenges at its San Antonio plant in Texas where Tacoma production will transfer for production next year. The company is investing around $100m to upgrade ...
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Volvo Logistics embraces biodiesel initiative
Volvo Logistics is participating in a carbon-conscious joint venture with DHL, IKEA, H&M and Preem that has led to the opening of the first petrol station in western Sweden selling environmentally-adapted fuel. The station is based at Skandiahemnen port in Gothenburg, close to Volvo’s plants and the trans-shipment terminal in ...
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Ford announces Executive Director for Global MP&L
As Ford’s Frederiek Toney prepares to take up his new role as Vice President of Ford Customer Service Division next Tuesday (read more here), the company announced today that Steve Harley (pictured) will fill the position of Executive Director, Global Material Planning and Logistics (MP&L) on the same day. Harley ...
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FeatureScrappage effect means no summer holiday for Hyundai
The UK’s scrappage scheme has led to the first rise in new car sales in country for 15 months, with more than one in five of the cars registered in July bought under the incentive. New car sales rose 2.4% in July and the rush for new registration models in ...
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FeatureGM hits new markets with Chinese-made minivans
Under a new agreement with its Chinese partner, Liuzhou Wuling Automotive, GM has begun exports of minivans from the country to markets in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. The first shipment of 150 vehicles left Guangzhou for Egypt last Thursday aboard NYK’s Zeus Leader and are due to ...