Bill Bacon, managing director for automotive at DHL Supply Chain, explains why it’s more important than ever for both manufactures and suppliers to have greater resilience in their supply chains so not to fracture the growth in British auto manufacturing.
Increasing volatility and uncertainty in global supply chains can cause traditional supply chain management models to break down. Natural disasters, socio-political unrest, economic uncertainty, market volatility – these and more can threaten catastrophic disruption without warning. In 2011, when the unthinkable happened – the Fukushima tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan – the global automotive…
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