Automotive Logistics for Production Report

This report, the first to be published taking into account the impact of the global financial crisis and the heightened economic volatility on the foot print of the international automotive industry and the vulnerability of its supply chain, provides a unique insight into the state of the industry in mature, developed markets in Europe, North America and Asia as well as offering a special focus on emerging market challenges of Russia, China and India. It will be of interest to all those involved in planning for a future within the automotive supply industry, as the issue of logistics grows in importance and becomes of ever broader significance to the future of the industry.

Background to this Research

In-bound logistics has been at the heart of the transformation of the automotive industry of the last decade and its significance is likely, in anything, to increase over the next several years. High quality logistics has been critical to the geographical extension of the automotive supply chain into emerging manufacturing countries. Further optimization of the supply chain offers huge potential for cost saving and the lessons of best practice on an international scale will drive the development of the future structure and location of the global international supply base.