Automotive

Practical Advice for Automating a Supply Chain Tech Stack

July 31, 2019

The Lithium Mine Buildup Is Outpacing the Electric-Car Boom

July 29, 2019

Lithium miners are bulking up for a booming future when electric cars go mainstream. But speed bumps loom, with prices tumbling on a burst of new production and demand growth slowing in China.

Can’t Cope With a Mass of Customer Complaints? AI to the Rescue

July 29, 2019

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

The old days of the Quality movement seem quaint in retrospect: the banners, the slogans, the prizes and team-building events. Today, quality management is all about information — or, more to the point, how to keep from getting buried in it.

Car Makers Are Reinventing the Wheel to Keep Up With Robocars

July 15, 2019

Bloomberg

The car industry is reinventing the wheel to prepare for autonomous vehicles.

Walmart’s Kickstarting a $1 Trillion Driverless Delivery Market

June 24, 2019

Bloomberg

Even the world’s biggest store doesn’t make money selling its wares online in the U.S., largely due to runaway shipping costs. So Walmart is turning to robots.

Domino's Brings Self-Driving Pizza Delivery Pilot to Houston

June 20, 2019

Bloomberg

The chain, known as a technology leader in the restaurant industry, is teaming up with Nuro, a Bay Area robotics startup run by a pair of former Google employees.

AI Needs `Edge Computing' to Make Everyday Devices Smarter

June 19, 2019

Bloomberg

Artificial intelligence can do amazing things, but it’s still rare because the math takes enormous computing power and loads of electricity.

Smarter & Faster: Helping Transportation and Logistics Companies Improve Fleet Management

June 19, 2019

HERE

Growing Supplier Visibility While Cutting Costs Through Automation

June 17, 2019

Dun & Bradstreet

Challenge: A customer was standardizing and automating its global third-party risk management program, and the company needed configurable risk-based screening and custom open-source search capability in a globally integrated workflow solution. The company also wanted to accelerate its onboarding and due-diligence processes — while controlling costs and ensuring procedural variances were standardized.

China's Father of Electric Cars Says Hydrogen Is the Future

June 14, 2019

Bloomberg

His vision to make China an electric-vehicle powerhouse revolutionized the global auto industry, cementing a move away from the combustion engine. Now, Wan Gang says get ready for the next game-changing moment.

Automotive

The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the automotive industry — which consists of companies that produce automobiles, utility vehicles, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles and heavy trucks. Learn how automotive companies and their suppliers around the world are managing the flow of products across all channels of the enterprise. Experts sound off on forecasting and demand planning, supply-chain visibility, logistics outsourcing, inventory optimization, transportation management, warehouse management, supply-chain security, corporate social responsibility and more.