Cost pressure has become a defining challenge for automotive supply chains. Demand volatility, shifting trade dynamics, transportation disruptions and evolving production footprints are forcing manufacturers and suppliers to balance cost, service and resilience in increasingly complex operating environments.

Souto Foods goes to Made4net for a modern warehouse management system to improve inventory accuracy, enhance productivity, and streamline order fulfillment across operations at its distribution center.

In return for providing the funds, the Department of Commerce will get a minority, non-controlling equity stake in each of the seven companies.

What’s disrupting and defining the sector more than anything are digital forces, from AI-driven automation and real-time visibility, to increasingly volatile global trade networks.

Demand planners now actively participate in supply planning meetings, reviewing level-loaded production plans and monthly buy recommendations.

The Commission took two decisions finding non-compliance by Google with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). 

The measure would prevent the Chinese Communist Party from being able to “take over the steering, the braking, and the acceleration” of vehicles in the U.S.

When shippers and retailers exchange the most timely information, they can fill empty trucks and match backhaul in near real time.

The company also has a goal to produce 40% of its DRAM chips in the U.S., and in a separate announcement, pledged $3 billion to boost the U.S. semiconductor supply chain.

Technology built by people with direct experience produce systems designed differently than technology built by people who only read about it.