All Service parts articles – Page 15
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FeatureDamage still half of claims for inbound and aftermarket supply
Inbound and aftermarket component supply chains achieve remarkable levels of quality, yet damage in transport is still the cause of up to half of all claims. A report on how the industry is cutting that figure. There is plenty about automotive component supply chains to suggest that damage in transport ...
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FeatureYusen targets auto freight forwarding and aftermarket in Europe
These are tough days for container shipping, with most of the major lines reporting losses, struggling with overcapacity and trying, with varying degrees of success, to push rates back to sustainable levels. Sailing against the winds of the market is particularly difficult when moving thousands of boxes is almost always ...
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FeatureUS accuses China of unfair levies
The US government has launched a new trade case with the World Trade Organisation against Chinese vehicle and parts export subsidies that Trade Representative Ron Kirk said were unfair and distorted international trade. The latest challenge contests $1 billion in subsidies and follows on from an earlier ...
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FeatureToyota invests in multi-purpose Kenyan facility
Toyota is investing $1.5m in a vehicle and parts logistics facility in the Kenyan capital Nairobi that will serve 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The centre will hold a stock of finished vehicles and parts inventory, allowing companies operating in the region to source vehicles more easily, rather than ...
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FeatureMazda completes $20m PDC project
Mazda Canada has opened its new Western Regional Operations and Parts Distribution Centre (PDC) at Langley in British Columbia. The 12,000-square-metre facility represents the final part of Mazda’s $20m Parts Distribution Centre Network expansion project, which was announced in 2010. The network comprises of seven PDCs in North America, two ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
DHL opens parts centre in BrazilDHL Global Forwarding has opened an automotive parts handling centre in São Paulo, Brazil that will process around 2,000 shipments per month for carmakers, commercial vehicle makers and their tier suppliers in the local market.According to the company, the Automotive Competence Center will provide ...
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FeatureRhenus develops supply chain for DAF in CIS
Following a contract signed at the beginning of the year, the Rhenus Group is providing DAF Trucks with complete supply chain services for its expanding dealer network in Russia and the wider CIS region.Rhenus is currently establishing warehousing in the Moscow region from where its transport subsidiary, Revival ...
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FeaturePremium logistics for a premium US service
Christopher Ludwig talks to Mercedes-Benz USA about the carmaker’s delivery and inventory management challenges in maintaining an efficient spare parts network.A different kind of dealer in the US;Why not three times a day?;The NAFTA project and sharing truckloads;In-house versus 3PL parts warehouses;Packaging standards and returnable loops;Can't just throw money at ...
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FeatureDiversity in distribution
Central supply, but moving eastward; A limited role for rail; Increasing delivery frequency; A changing landscape; Targeting better service. As aftermarket demand increases in Russia's central and eastern regions, Anthony Coia reports how logistics services need to adapt.As the development of Russia’s automotive market thrives, the geographical variation of the ...
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FeatureToyota centre widens reach across Spain
Toyota Motor Europe has officially started of operations at its newly relocated parts centre in Illescas, 40km south of Madrid. The company had its previous centre to the north of the capital at San Agustín de Guadalix. Toyota has invested €26.7m ($33.3m) in the new 19,600m_ facility, called Toyota ...
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FeatureCeva expands in Iberia and Philippines
Ceva Logistics has signed a three-year contract with Mercedes-Benz to manage the shipment of spare parts from the Iberian Peninsula to its dealer network in the Canary Islands, Balearic Islands and the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla, located in North Africa. Ceva will handle the collection of ...
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FeatureNorbert Dentressangle invests in contract with Vauxhall
GM Europe’s division in the UK, Vauxhall Motors, has signed a three-year contract extension with transport and logistics provider Norbert Dentressangle for the overnight distribution of automotive parts to 300 UK Vauxhall and Chevrolet dealers.The latest contract extension builds on a 12-year relationship between Vauxhall and Norbert Dentressangle for ...
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FeatureAGCO invests in African PDC
Agricultural machinery maker, AGCO, has broken ground on a parts distribution centre at Pomona near Johannesburg, South Africa, which it will run with distribution partner Barloworld. The centre expected to be complete by the end of the year.The PDC will hold 40,000 parts and will be situated near the ...
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FeatureVW begins PDC network development
Volkswagen has started work on a new 16,000-square metre parts distribution centre (PDC) in Gurgaon, India, which is expected to be up and running by the end of the year. Work on the centre, designed to serve the Northern region of India which accounts for 35-40% of the carmaker’s ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
DAF invests €30m in Eindhoven PDCPACCAR subsidiary DAF Trucks is investing €30m ($39m) in a new 26,000-square-metre parts distribution centre (PDC) in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The facility, which is due for completion in the first half of 2013, will replace the truckmaker's existing PDC in Eindhoven and provide additional capacity ...
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FeatureReframing a fragmented network
GM’s Opel/Vauxhall unit is making moves to centralise its aftermarket logistics and improve efficiency at its warehouses. Simon Duval Smith caught up with Sarah Kenworthy, director of aftermarket supply chain.Vauxhall’s Chalton parts warehouse, near to the OEM’s Luton plant some 55km north of London, covers 1.2m square feet (110,00m2) of ...
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FeatureConverging theory and reality in supply
Textbooks cover the basics of forecasting and inventory management but, as Malcolm Wheatley relates, the scale and speed of aftermarket parts supply requires increasingly complex IT solutionsA complex environment;If it looks like fish, it may not be fish;A global solution for Jaguar.When Piaggio Group Americas had problems with aftermarket spares ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
Höegh Autoliners commences regular Sagunto serviceHöegh Autoliners has launched a new regular service from the Spanish Mediterranean port of Sagunto to the US East Coast, complementing existing services from Sagunto to the Far East, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean and Northern Europe. Vessels will call on a three-week rotation. ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
Gebrüder Weiss sets up JV with Tegeta MotorsEuropean logistics and transport provider Gebrüder Weiss has established a majority stake in a joint venture with Tegeta Motors, a vehicle spare parts and service provider based in Tbilisi, Georgia which distributes international brands in the Caucasus region. Called Gebrüder Weiss-Tegeta, the ...
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FeatureMazda PDCs to improve deliveries
Mazda has shed more light on the development of its parts distribution network in North America, following last week's news that it has brought the number of facilities in the region to seven as it seeks to improve delivery times and reduce transport costs there. Four new parts distribution centres ...