Leadership and team members at any company, regardless of size, know that ongoing pandemic-related supply chain imbalances are costly. Sales are up at many companies, but profit is down, primarily because higher transportation costs and delays are eating into...
Volvo plans to modify its Ridgeville, South Carolina factory, which is located less than 40 miles from Charleston, to become a dedicated EV factory. Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson said that the factory will be the first Volvo factory in the world making only electric...
More than 300 million square feet of new warehouse and fulfillment space is needed in the US to support e-commerce. Amazon is addressing this issue with huge (3 million+ square feet) robotic fulfilment centers. These multi-level centers where humans and robots work...
Global supply chains that were broken by the pandemic are still in chaos. These problems will be with us for a while, because of market imbalances and because the just-in-time global outsourcing model no longer works for most companies and their customers. Ants use a...
Morgan Stanley recently released a note on Tesla’s future capacity and growth. The note discussed key drivers that would further Tesla’s dominance in terms of model/segment and factory footprint. “Cars don’t ship like iPhones, and there are benefits in high...
A new report totaling several hundred pages, that supports localization and reshoring was released today, recommending immediate and far-reaching action on supply chains involving areas critical to the U.S. economy: large capacity lithium batteries, rare earth...
