Toyota Logistics Services (TLS) manages and coordinates all the Toyota, Lexus and Scion finished vehicle movements into and from North America. Vehicles are imported from Japan through the west coast ports of Portland, Oregon and Benicia and Long Beach, California. On the east coast, Jacksonville, Florida and Newark, New Jersey are destination ports and Lazaro […]
Working with suppliers to encourage lean concepts is a pre-requisite for GM’s new purchasing head, Grace Lieblein, reports Sam Ogle.
Daimler has a new man in charge of global logistics with the appointment of Heiko Gaiser (pictured), who has replaced Dr Holger Scherr as head of worldwide transport logistics, passenger cars, trucks vans and buses.
Toyota’s North American Logistics Control division is taking a more centralised approach to managing its inbound logistics network in an effort to influence the carmaker’s purchasing decisions
Four years after Renault Nissan created Alliance Logistics Europe to combine the logistics management and operations of the two brands, the group is making major breakthroughs in combining network flows.
Grant Belanger will return to Dearborn this autumn to head up Ford Motor Company’s logistics as executive director for global material planning and logistics (MP&L) and parts supply and logistics (PS&L). He replaces Steve Harley (pictured left), who will return to Europe to oversee a series of model transfers to Spain and Germany as director of […]
United Auto Workers Union 1112 posted on its website that General Motors will be producing Chevrolet Cruze sedans at the Lordstown, Ohio, plant during what had been a week of scheduled downtime.
General Motors is investing $167 million in its Spring Hill, Tenn., assembly plant where the automaker said this investment will go to support two future mid-size vehicle programs. Out of the $167 million, $40 million are going toward one program and the remaining $127 million are going toward the second. This investment brings the total […]
Kia has been busy this year, launching the Cadenza upscale sedan and a redesigned Forte compact sedan and putting the finishing touches on a five-door hatchback, coupe and redesigned Soul that will arrive before year end. And Kia won’t rest much after that. The hard-charging brand will continue its upscale push
