Automotive Logistics Global 2010, 4-6 October, Dearborn, Michigan
2010 CONFERENCE THEME:
The human factor: delivering flexible and efficient supply chains
If there's one lesson that came out of the traumas of North America's auto manufacturing sector, it's the need to be flexible. Supply chains have been re-examined and inventory has been reduced.
IT investment has re-started, albeit with shorter payback times, and the finished vehicle sector needs to add capacity - and quickly - if market growth is to be sustained. But the call today by OEMs is, above all, for flexibility. They can't easily forecast volumes and they certainly cannot forecast the price of gas, and what that does to the all-important (for automotive logistics at least) sales mix of vehicle sizes. Flexibility is a human activity. It requires investment in the right assets, determined by humans, it means creating the right processes, conceived by humans, and it means responding to an urgent phone call, with human determination.
A comment heard at a previous Automotive Logistics Global conference was: 'Great logistics is delivered by great people.'
The conference, which is being held in Detroit this October, will address the challenge of delivering supply chains that are, of course, more efficient, but which above all are flexible.
Delegates at Automotive Logistics Global 2010 will:
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Learn the forecast global context - flows from China, in-region sourcing, imports from Europe, and more
NEW for 2010
Two innovations will futher enhance the value of the conference to delegates:
Supplier’s Supply Chain – multiple sessions focussing on the challenges faced by Tier suppliers and their North American/global sourcing strategies;
Solutions workshops – where customers and suppliers explain the solutions they have applied in areas like packaging, IT, service parts and express freight