June 7, 2022 5 Must Have Features of APS Solution Advanced planning and scheduling (APS) solutions are like a crystal ball for production planners: They support a look ahead into... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Advanced Planning and Scheduling
November 16, 2021 Use Case: Pearl Chain Sequencing Supply chain management is a complex and time-consuming process. Every organization's root is its supply chain, so it must run as... Read More Tags: Automotive Industry , Industry 4.0
June 8, 2021 EV Battery Sourcing and Sustainability Sustainability is an increasingly pressing issue. With the world in a climate crisis, it is of growing importance for companies... Read More Tags: Automotive Industry
April 20, 2021 A Resilient Response to Shortages Resilience in a supply chain is a key component for success. As any disruption or delay can drastically impact supply chain... Read More Tags: Automotive Industry , Supply Chain Resilience
October 20, 2020 How Automakers Can Reduce Internal IT Costs Just a few years ago, a PWC survey found that cost reduction was one of the top three concerns at global manufacturing companies.... Read More Tags: Automotive Industry , Cloud Technology
October 6, 2020 5 Ways to Save Costs in the Truck/Automotive Supply Chain Cost pressures on manufacturers of commercial vehicles have been increasing for years, and the coronavirus crisis certainly isn’t... Read More Tags: Automotive Industry , Cloud Technology
October 1, 2020 Emerging Challenges in the Truck/Automotive Industry (and How to Handle Them) In January and February of 2020, exports out of China’s manufacturing sector fell 13% as a result of the coronavirus. Though... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Automotive Industry
September 29, 2020 5 Predictions for the Automotive Supply Chain in 2021 People have been making educated guesses and predictions about the future of the automotive supply chain for as long as there’s... Read More Tags: Automotive Industry , Supply Chain Trends
September 22, 2020 How the Automotive Product Life Cycle Is Changing Product development and sales planning are both fundamentally linked to the stages of the product life cycle: introduction,... Read More Tags: Automotive Industry , Industry 4.0
September 10, 2020 How Will Autonomous Vehicles Change Manufacturing? It may be a while before self-driving cars, aka autonomous vehicles, become viable consumer goods, but autonomous mobility is... Read More Tags: Automotive Industry , Digitization
August 20, 2020 How Will The Cloud Change Auto Manufacturing? Cloud technologies are driving the global digital transformation. Nowhere is this impact being felt stronger than in the... Read More Tags: Automotive Industry , Cloud Technology
April 9, 2020 What Are the Top 5 Causes of Delay in the Automotive Supply Chain? In the US last year, car sales began to slow down after years of historic growth. Whether that’s an anomaly, a real trend caused... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Automotive Industry
March 19, 2020 5 Keys to Managing Costs in the Automotive Supply Chain Let’s say you’re a kid, and you’re trying to set up a lemonade stand in front of your parents’ house. You go to the store... Read More Tags: Automotive Industry , Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE)
November 26, 2019 The Top 5 KPIs Every Inventory Manager Should Track Is your boss starting to ask uncomfortable questions? Like what your average order cycle time is? Or what the latest shrinkage... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Automotive Industry
October 1, 2019 Is the Automotive Supply Chain Ready for Electric Cars? Remember the “paperless office?” Back in the early days of computing for the masses, and particularly after the invention of the... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Automotive Industry
August 20, 2019 How Can Advanced Planning and Scheduling Help the Automotive Industry? The automotive industry is no stranger to technology. It’s also no stranger to the rapid pace of change that’s overtaken global... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Automotive Industry
July 30, 2019 The Automaker’s Guide to Demand Capacity Planning Let's say you’re a bartender in a sleepy neighborhood pub in your city. Your place might reasonably be called a dive bar, and you... Read More Tags: Automotive Industry , Demand Capacity Planning
July 18, 2019 Supply Chain Optimization in the Automotive Industry All the way at the far end of the supply chain, when an automobile reaches its end consumer, it looks like they’re buying one... Read More Tags: Automotive Industry , Supply Chain Planning