Automotive
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Is Your EV Battery Supply Chain Up To The Task?

Automotive companies around the world are investing billions into lithium-ion battery technology with the number of EV cars on roads steadily increasing every day. There are currently more than 128,000 pure-electric cars registered in the UK, that number rises to over 315,000 when including plug-in models such as hybrids. The National Grid suggests that the

Automotive
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Supply Chain Visibility in Automotive

The Challenge… The average car has over 30,000 parts. These parts come together from suppliers all over the globe with any given item potentially crossing multiple international borders while being passed between various suppliers for different layers of the production process before eventually concluding its journey at the final assembly point. Supply-chain in the automotive

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Health
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Reducing The Environmental Impact In Supply Chains

How many companies are considering the overall impact of their supply chain? The consultancy firm McKinsey says 90% of companies’ impact on the environment comes from supply chains.

Automotive
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Digital Twinning: Helping Supply Chains Build Resilience

The emergence of Digital Twinning has opened up the ground-breaking capabilities to plan, track and analyse scenarios in the digital world in advance of incorporating them into supply chains. What Is Digital Twinning? As one of the technologies to emerge from the continuously evolving fourth industrial revolution, there is an increasing focus on Digital Twinning

Automotive
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How to get your supply chain ready for the future of transport

New technology and power sources could revolutionise logistics In retail, much is made of the demand for flexible and even same-day delivery. However, this sector isn’t alone, with the need to find cost-effective solutions and new efficiencies evident throughout the logistics and supply chain industry.  Changes to transport as we know it – such as

Consumer
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Why We Need to Remove Single-Use Plastic from Supply Chains

How to head for a sustainable, cost-effective supply chain future  With over 8 million tons of plastic ending up in the oceans each year, businesses around the world are waking up to the fact that they need to review their corporate responsibility and address the environmental impact of their supply chains. There are benefits to

Automotive
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Battery disposal: big challenges for the supply chain

How can the industry deal with batteries in a safer, less wasteful way?  In February 2019, a recycling site fire in St Helens ignited an area of 50 x 50 metres and sparked public health warnings due to a resulting 30-metre-high smoke plume. It took firefighters a whole weekend to extinguish the blaze, which was

Technology
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Why smart homes are the next technology supply chain challenge

Will you be ready for the next generation of supply, service and technological needs? According to the research and analytics group YouGov, “almost a quarter of Britons now own one or more smart home devices”. The figures refer to smart speakers, thermostats, lighting and security (although they exclude smart meters). Market data analysts Statista predict