The future of Ford’s untouchable supply chain

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Ford is digitalising key aspects of its global logistics and supply chain management, including the recent insourcing of its fourth party logistics (4PL) logistics management in Asia Pacific, Africa and South America…

Ford is digitalising key aspects of its global logistics and supply chain management, including the recent insourcing of its fourth party logistics (4PL) logistics management in Asia Pacific, Africa and South America.

Talking about the company’s transformative journey towards end-to-end digitisation and automation in the recent Livestream Hour: Driving innovation in production and logistics, Amlan Bose, vice-president of the Centre of Excellence, Asia Pacific, MEA, South America, Ford, said: “We should be able to run the supply chain and logistics untouched by human hands, that’s our idea of an autonomous supply chain in the future.

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