Automotive

Adding Advanced Sourcing to SAP, Ariba, Oracle and Other Procurement Suites

April 3, 2014

Auto Manufacturers Form Pact on Human Rights, Sustainability, Ethical Standards

April 3, 2014

More than a dozen of the world's largest car makers have agreed on minimum human rights, environmental and business ethics standards for their global supply chains, according to the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) in Michigan and CSR Europe in Brussels, which today jointly announced the "unprecedented agreement."

Yusen Logistics Completes Fourth Expansion at Port of Duisburg

March 28, 2014

Duisport

Yusen Logistics has completed the fourth expansion of its facility at the Port of Duisburg, Germany.

Will Ocean Carriers Scuttle Their Future (Again)?

March 19, 2014

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

It looks as though we're in for a year of continued economic recovery and job growth, however gradual. That should be good news for ocean carriers - assuming they don't undermine their own success by flooding the market with capacity, then engaging in rampant discounting to fill it.

IBM Deploys B2B Cloud-Based Network for India's Auto Industry

March 13, 2014

IBM

IBM has deployed a business-to-business, cloud-based network to support India's automotive industry.

Ocean Carrier Mega-Alliances: A Question Mark for Shippers

March 10, 2014

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

I'd like to propose a symbol for those huge new vessel-sharing alliances that will dominate the global container trades this year and beyond: a great big question mark.

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Launches New Service; Opens Barcelona Office

March 4, 2014

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has introduced a twice-monthly service from Santander, Spain to South Africa, and on to Australia.

March Networks: The World of High-Tech Security

March 4, 2014

Sue Montgomery, Senior Business Analyst, March Networks

Hit the Gas! How to Double Your Strategic Sourcing Output

March 3, 2014

Challenge: A $7B Tier 1 automotive manufacturer determined that its direct materials sourcing processes were inefficient to the point that they were losing potential revenue. Instead of performing strategic sourcing activities for new product introductions, the sourcing team was spending most of its time extracting information from other systems (PLM, ERP), manipulating spreadsheets, and analyzing vast amounts of quote information from their suppliers.

MD Logistics Offers Clients More Efficient and Effective Transportation Options

March 3, 2014

Challenge: MD Logistics existing legacy Transportation Management System was used to manually optimize freight solutions for customers that elected for the value-added service. However, it lacked full integration to the Warehouse Management System and the ability to rate shop and optimize freight spend and routing automatically.

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.