As I am currently on a business trip in India I thought it would be a good time to provide an update on what is currently going on in the automotive industry in the country at the moment. I was fortunate enough to experience what it is like to travel on India’s roads when I [...]
Read More» It doesn’t seem long ago that I was discussing how the U.S government was bailing out car manufacturers in order to protect their manufacturing industry, the associated supply chains and the thousands of people that rely on the manufacturing sector for their livelihood. GM and Chrysler accepted significant government bail-out funds however Ford decided to [...]
Read More» The OFTP2 implementation guidelines were introduced at the end of 2008, at a time when many companies were just starting to enter one of the most severe economic downturns of recent years. During this time, automotive companies were restructuring, consolidating IT infrastructures and the last thing on their minds was to start investing in new [...]
Read More» Toyota has suffered one of its toughest years in its history, the Japanese earthquake back in March severely affected Toyota’s global production capacity for many months and is only now starting to get back to some form of normality. Toyota was obviously not the only company to be impacted by the earthquake and they, like [...]
Read More» The automotive industry has undergone immense change and restructuring over the past 24 months. The number one priority across the industry has been to reduce costs and we have seen a number of strategies implemented to try and achieve this, from reducing inventory levels, consolidating business and production systems through to exploring manufacturing and sourcing [...]
Read More» In my previous blog entry I discussed the supply chain complexities associated with a high tech company supplying components to two different car manufacturers. I split the supply chain complexity into three areas, Technology/Standards Complexity, Regional Complexity and Industry/Process Complexity. Now given that I highlighted some of the customer facing complexities facing this particular supplier [...]
Read More» The ability to maintain a competitive edge in today’s marketplace is often driven by a company’s ability to match IT capabilities with business strategy and processes. Many companies have implemented SAP to automate internal business processes in order to achieve business goals. However, in today’s global economy, business to business (B2B) integration with a global [...]
Read More» Last week I attended the Odette Conference in Munich Germany. The conference is targeted at all B2B, ICT, Supply Chain and Logistics professionals across the automotive industry. This is the fourth time that I have attended this conference since I have been at GXS and although the conference has downsized since my first conference in [...]
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Last Year, I introduced a series of posts about how every activity in your life is no more than six degrees away from a process that is supported by B2B integration. Wikipedia defines Six Degrees of Separation as “The idea that, if a person is one step away from each person they know and two [...]
Read More» Today’s automotive industry has operations in all major economies around the world. Whether it is in the more established markets such as North America or Europe or the newer automotive markets such as China, India or Russia, each region has had to establish communities of trading partners to support the new car manufacturing plants.
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