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- “For 100 years, the automotive industry has been refining its processes around the Internal Combustion Engine. The historic pace of change for OEMs and suppliers will seem like a Sunday stroll compared to the simultaneous surge of disruptions it is facing beyond the current pandemic. C.A.S.E. initiatives – Connected, Autonomous, Shared Mobility and Electric – are turning cars into supercomputers on wheels. The impact is profound. The good news is that the overall size of the automotive market is increasing from 3.6T to 7.2T, a tsunami of change representing an opportunity as well as a threat.”
- Salim Shaikh, CVP Automotive Industry Strategy at Blue Yonder
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Challenges Facing Automotive OEMs
- During this age of rapidly advancing technology, vehicles will no longer be differentiated by stylish design or powerful engines. Instead, they’ll be characterized by advanced driver assistance systems, LiDAR sensors, image-recognition systems, 5G communications, and electric powertrains. New automotive winners will operate as technology companies, integrating best practices from both the high-tech and consumer industries.
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Ford Motors APAC's Digital Logistics Transformation
Amlan Bose, vice president of digital initiatives, material planning and logistics, explains how Ford Motors APAC is using Blue Yonder ‘s transportation management system. Watch to learn how Blue Yonder helps support the unique challenges of the inbound parts supply chain by increasing cube, asset utilization, planner efficiency, reducing planning cycle time and logistics spend while achieving a new global standard for transportation management at Ford.
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Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. Selects Blue Yonder to Digitally Transform Supply Chain Planning Capabilities
As consumer habits shift, manufacturers need to become more responsive to consumer needs and provide visibility to all stakeholders in the supply chain. That’s why Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A., a leading powersports manufacturer, has selected to digitally transform its supply chain with Blue Yonder.
With Blue Yonder, Kawasaki will be able to:
- Establish a best-in-class, demand-driven dynamic replenishment process that greatly improves dealer service levels.
- Optimize inventory within dealer network and Kawasaki while improving customer satisfaction.
- Provide near real-time planning and execution level visibility of upstream supply from factories for improved resilience.
- Increase agility to respond to dealer orders and offer shorter turnaround time in its dealer network from order to delivery, improving speed to retail.
Explore the Future of Automotive
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Supply chain volatility and disruptions are exposing the lack of transparency, responsiveness, and agility in operations and collaboration with partners. In addition, demand and supply imbalance, logistics network constraints and inflation are affecting service levels, costs and margins. Read our eBook, Explore the Future of Automotive, to learn how Blue Yonder can help not only manage your supply chains but put you in a position to win.
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Priorities for the Automotive Industry
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Illuminate your supply chain network
Only when you can visualize the entire flow of goods across this network, you can measure the impact of a supply disruption or a demand mix change. When you see the impact of the disruption in real-time, you can come up with proactive risk mitigation plans.
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Demand and supply variability
Supply chain resiliency can be enabled through better scenario planning and simulation capabilities. These include the ability to develop a range of scenarios and robust contingency plans to navigate and understand the tradeoffs on cash flow, P&L, and the balance sheet.
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Strategic network design
Organizations are increasingly coming up with proactive risk mitigation plans by revisiting their supply chain network design. This includes reconfiguring their global and regional supply chain flows, sourcing critical components from local suppliers, and conducting trade-offs according to needs, cost, service and risk scenario analysis.
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Working capital reduction
Resiliency is about being agile and lean at the same time. By reducing costs, working capital reduction and cash flow preservation is key, especially since inflation is at a 40-year high. 55% of CEOs expect a significant rise in inflation over the next three years and hence 75% are increasing their supply chain initiatives year over year.
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Taking control of outsourced transportation functions
Organizations are increasingly bringing selective transportation functions in-house to gain better control, reduce cost, and become more resilient.
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Line side replenishment
The goal of leveraging Warehouse Management to help automate line side replenishment is to reduce bottlenecks, ensure there are no production downtimes, and optimize inventory management for our customers.
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Case Study
Mitsubishi Drive Supply Chain Excellence with Forecasting & Replenishment
To deliver higher service levels for its customers, Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. knew it first had to achieve greater forecast accuracy.
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Exide Drives Digital Transformation Initiative Focused on Supply Chain Efficiency
Exide Industries Limited (EIL) is a leader in packaged power technology. Through its digital transformation journey, Exide has been able to increase service levels, reduce transportation costs and reduce inventory.
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Balanced production and optimized resource planning
- In discrete manufacturing, e.g. in the OEM industry for the production of cars, trucks, buses and special vehicles, planning is a crucial task.
The assembly process, which is typically carried out in several phases and at different workstations and involves thousands of vendor parts, is managed in a highly complex planning process that discretely takes large bills of materials into account.
In production planning, the formation of a production order sequence is crucial in order to create efficient and smooth production processes. Production schedules for medium-term (monthly, weekly) and short-term (daily) ''order buckets'' must be created taking into account numerous constraints such as resources for assembly or paint process sequences as well as material availability. Learn how Order Slotting and Scheduling and Order Sequencing from flexis, now part of Blue Yonder, can support these planning challenges. - Enabling Resiliency in Automotive
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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions, Pia Orup Lund, Tim Payne, Joe Graham, Caleb Thomson, Jan Snoeckx, 23 April 2024.
Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems,” Brock Johns, Oscar Sanchez Duran, Carly West, Manav Jain, 27 March 2024.
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