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Top Five Challenges for Automakers Looking to Mitigate Supply-Chain Risk

No. 1: a clear picture from supplier to factory — and all the milestones in between.

Siemens Top Five Challenges

America’s Massive Used-Car Inventory Is Getting the EBay Treatment

This startup is clearing the bottleneck in an analog industry — and catalyzing socially distanced car shopping.

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Europe Finds It’s Hard to Say Goodbye to Low-Cost China

Already buffeted by U.S.-China trade tensions, the European Union has stepped efforts to produce closer to home in the wake of the global pandemic.

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Here’s How a No-Deal Brexit Would Shock Virus-Hit U.K. Companies

Trade talks between the EU and U.K. have struggled in recent weeks, increasing the prospect that Britain departs the bloc without a deal and that businesses face an extreme shock when the divorce takes effect.

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Pick-to-Voice or Voice Picking?

Which processes in the warehouse are ideal for voice automation?

Accu Speech Mobile Pick To Voice

Can the U.S. End China’s Control of the Global Supply Chain?

The trade war amplified calls in the U.S. and elsewhere for reducing dependence on China for strategic goods. Now, the pandemic has politicians vowing to take action.

Source: Bloomberg

Automakers Are Ramping Up Production, Unnerving Factory Workers

American auto demand is coming back faster than expected, spurring Ford Motor Co. and others to crank up production.

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Six Tips for Success Using Machine Learning for Demand Planning

Machine learning has great business potential, but if wielded the wrong way, it can result in wasted time and resources.

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How to Optimize Inventory in the Digital Age

Up to 75% of companies are still using spreadsheets to optimize their inventories. There’s a better way.

Tools Group How To Optimize Inventory In The Digital Age

Another Attempt to Produce Rare-Earth Minerals in the U.S.

American companies across the board are striving to reduce their dependence on China as a source of manufacturing, but one industry sector is especially keen to bring production back to the U.S.

Annealed neodymium iron boron magnets sit in a barrel prior to being crushed into powder. One of several rare earth elements, neodymium is critical to the motors used in electric vehicles. Photo: Bloomberg.

Automotive Procurement: Time to Rethink Supplier Consolidation?

The concept of sole sourcing is as old as that of strategic sourcing. Call it vendor consolidation, volume concentration, or reduction of part-number proliferation, the endgame is always the same: reduce the number of vendors at the part and enterprise levels, to help drive cost efficiencies.

A factory employee performs a quality check on an engine part. Photo: Bloomberg.

Musk Reopens Tesla’s Plant, Daring Authorities to Arrest Him

Elon Musk restarted production at Tesla’s only U.S. car plant, flouting county officials who ordered the company to stay closed and openly acknowledging he was risking arrest for himself and his employees.

A Tesla Inc. assembly plant in Tilburg, Netherlands. Photo: Shutterstock.

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