November 2, 2022
33 min Listen
Discover what business leaders can learn from the recent past to find supply chain success in the future.
McKinsey projects that “worldwide demand for electric vehicles (EVs) will grow sixfold from 2021 through 2030, with annual unit sales going from 6.5 million to roughly 40 million over that period.”
This level of growth calls for a massive amount of innovation and investment in the automotive industry. With new regulations, emerging technologies, and shifting consumer preferences, industry leaders must be ready for what is to come. From the rupture of the past two years, supply chain crisis after supply chain crisis, and the stubborn semiconductor issue, what can the automotive industry learn from the recent past to find success in the future?
In this episode of Masters of Digital Transformation, host Caleb Masters is joined by Beda Bolzenius, former President and CEO of Marelli, and they discuss:
- The shift from global to regional focus in automotive manufacturing during the supply chain crisis,
- The lead time production hangover from the pandemic,
- The inherent need for data and the software with the capacity to digest it and turn it into actionable insights,
- The importance of transparency across an organization’s supply chain,
- The need to be agile and prepare for future incoming disruptions,
- And a final call for optimism for the automotive industry: disruption leads to innovation.
About the authors
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The Digital Brain Platform
o9 Solutions is a leading Enterprise Knowledge and AI-powered platform helping companies build Agile, Adaptive & Autonomous Planning & Execution Models for transforming enterprise decision-making in environments of rising volatility and uncertainty. Whether it is improving forecast accuracy, matching demand and supply and driving collaboration across the multi-tier supply chain to improve resilience at optimal costs and inventory, or optimizing new product and commercial initiatives to drive revenue growth and margins, decision-making processes from long-range to tactical to execution horizon can be made faster and smarter and connected on o9’s Digital Brain Platform.
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