[DOWNLOAD] ~ Tempus Fugit: Brad Brennan Describes the Role of Emergency Logistics in the Automotive Supply Chain (Express and Courier) ~ by Supply Chain Europe ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Tempus Fugit: Brad Brennan Describes the Role of Emergency Logistics in the Automotive Supply Chain (Express and Courier)
- Author : Supply Chain Europe
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,Industries & Professions,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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Emergency logistics specialist Evolution Time Critical has, for 10 years, provided emergency logistics services to the world's major carmakers and their suppliers. By consistently helping manufacturers to counter supply chain disruption and keep production lines running, it has grown from a small startup to a successful international business with customers in more than 40 countries. Managing Director, Brad Brennan, says that Evolution's anniversary year has been its best ever: "The automotive industry still needs our support, both in reacting to events and in the consultative and design stages." Evolution's business is 95% automotive, a sector in which Brennan says the company has a clear focus and a profound depth of knowledge (there is a small amount of business in aviation and other sectors). Brennan points out that a lot of automotive materials are actually planned for high speed delivery ... but his company exclusively addresses critical and emergency situations: "Whenever the phone rings, we know it's automotive and it's critical!" The distinction is somewhat arbitrary; Brennan suggests that "critical means we must have parts first thing in the morning; emergency means we are stopping the line in 3 hours." Last year was what Brennan describes as "an interesting one. In 2009, we were emerging from recession and there were a lot of issues with companies rebuilding volumes. The recovery was a problem in itself for some suppliers: it is easy to switch things off, harder to switch them back on. So, a lot of them needed critical delivery support. "January 2010 saw a dump of snow during which we estimate that we saved UK customers something like [pound sterling]30 million in potential missed production. Then there was the Icelandic volcano. For us, we had to think laterally and really use our contacts to work out where planes could actually fly. There were, of course, huge backlogs of supplies building up in Asia, often with second tier suppliers whose products are not valuable but nonetheless essential. So we were taking up seats with onboard couriers because we couldn't move products as freight and we were routing, for instance, by Milan, then Madrid then on to the UK by truck. We had to be completely on the ball and know exactly what was available."
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