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Ask an OEM purchasing team about its tier-1 suppliers and the answers come quickly. Contracts, scorecards, audit results, the date of the last business review: it’s…
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For automotive suppliers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), the major concern continues to be reducing costs to maintain competitiveness; however, suppliers struggle to meet OEM requests…
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Managing the right inventory levels for an automobile business is a day-to-day battle. If you have too little stock then delivery is late, sales are missed…
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Each plan in the automotive supply chain begins with a demand number. Capacity, purchasing commitments, inventory targets and supplier contracts all depend on it. When that…
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Automotive suppliers don't fail overnight, and most signals are there weeks or months earlier than the line stops.Automotive supplier failures occur slowly. Deliveries start slipping, quality…
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The supply chain issues that are being seen within the auto industry were brought into focus as a result of various elements including but limited to;…
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In most cases, procurement departments have been tracking suppliers to some degree. The group has a supplier scorecard. They have a quarterly business review. Someone tracks…
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Late deliveries cause problems throughout the entire delivery chain. Customers may lose their trust, call centers may have to handle a large number of calls, and…
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Increasing amounts of data are being produced by small businesses but are not used to its full potential. For example data like sales transactions, customer information,…
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Data has always played a key role in Supply Chain Management. Order forms, supplier data, stock movements, production schedules, shipment information and warehouse movements are all…
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Today’s Supply Chain is a data-intensive operation. All aspects of the Supply Chain function leave behind a digital footprint in the form of orders, movements, inventory…
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Running an automotive supply chain on instinct stopped working a long time ago. One vehicle program can pull thousands of part numbers from hundreds of suppliers…
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