Before FreightOptics, the manufacturer didn’t have its own contracted rates and relied solely on the default rates available through its TMS provider. Shipment data was entered by hand, parcel and freight invoices moved through separate batches, and suppliers booked freight directly. Transportation decisions, carrier costs, and billing were spread across disconnected processes.

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.

According to The Wall Street Journal, BMW has started a "voluntary redundancy program" agreed to with employee representatives. 

The White House pointed to GM's $6 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing, as well as smaller investments by Ford, Stellantis and Detroit Diesel.

Detroit bridge crossings have particular significance for maintaining the supply chains of the automotive industries of the U.S. and Canada.

The battery passport often reads as a regulatory burden, just another rule from Brussels. In practice, it’s something more useful.

Many Canadians remain perplexed and angered by the deterioration in what was previously one of the most reliable trading alliances in the world, worth more than $900 billion in 2024.

A new agreement aims to scale lithium-ion battery cell production in the United States.

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.

Mercedes is seeking to raise the threshold for permitted Chinese ownership to 25%, among other potential changes.