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AUTOMOTIVE LOGISTICS CONFERENCES 2008 |
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SPONSORS
Premier Sponsor |
Gefco
GEFCO, specialist in automotive logistics for more than 55 years, ranks among Europe’s 10 leading transport and logistics groups, with a turnover of €3,45 billion.
The company is present in 25 countries and covers another 80. With a staff complement of about 10,000 employees in Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, South America and China, GEFCO thrives on the challenges of the global automotive industry.
GEFCO covers every aspect of automotive logistics on a global level for car manufacturers, importers, parts suppliers and the two-wheeler industry, both inbound and outbound.
The company’s mission is to create added value and generate savings for its automotive customers with multi-modal supply chain engineering and optimisation.
Inbound logistics:
GEFCO can engineer integrated flow-based solutions for complex inbound supply chain requirements, combining services provided by its different divisions in transportation, contract logistics, reusable packaging management, Customs and tax representation as well as global parts supply and sourcing.
Outbound logistics:
GEFCO, in addition to its traditional activities of shipping vehicles from assembly plants to storage centres and then distributing these to dealers and leasing companies, provides post-production operations, pre-delivery car preparation for dealers, reconditions and repairs used vehicles and offers customised special transport services.
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Gold Sponsor |
CEVA Logistics
CEVA combines the heritage of TNT Logistics and EGL, which merged in August 2007. The company employs more than 50,000 people and operates an extensive global network with facilities in over 100 countries worldwide.
It runs 614 warehouses around the globe with a combined space of approximately 8, 6 million square metres. For fiscal year 2006, the reported combined pro forma sales amounted to €6 billion.
CEVA is a non-listed business, owned by affiliates of Apollo Management, one of the leading private equity investors in the world. CEVA focuses on a diverse range of market sectors including automotive and tyres, technology, industrial, retail and consumer goods, health care, publishing, aerospace, and oil and gas.
As a leading global logistics organisation, the company provides end-to-end design, implementation and operation of logistics solutions in contract logistics, freight forwarding, distribution management and transportation management for large and medium-sized national and multinational companies.
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Chep
CHEP is the global leader in pallet and container pooling services, serving many of the world’s largest companies.
Delivering an unprecedented combination of supply chain cost reduction, size, scale, superior technology and global reach, CHEP issues, collects, conditions and reissues more than 285 million pallets and containers from a global network of service centres, helping manufacturers and growers transport their products across the supply chain. Combining decades of experience with an unmatched asset base, CHEP serves the automotive, consumer goods, fresh produce, home improvement, beverage, raw materials and petro-chemical industries.
CHEP partners with its customers to develop pooling solutions that ensure reduced product damage, enhance delivery efficiencies, eliminate waste and reduce supply chain costs. With global partners that include, Ford, GM, Procter & Gamble, SYSCO, ESSO, Shell, Kellogg’s, Kraft and Nestlé, it is known for ‘Handling the World’s Most Important Products. Everyday.’
CHEP is committed to reducing environmental waste. The company’s pallet and container pooling system eliminates more than six million tons of wood packaging from landfills each year by recycling wood and nails. Components that cannot be repaired or reused are recycled for fuel, mulch and animal bedding.
CHEP employs more than 7,700 employees in 44 countries and is a Brambles company, benefiting from more than four decades of industry experience worldwide. Brambles is a leading global support services group, providing a variety of industrial and business services, including pallet and container pooling, and information management.
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Evolution Time Critical
Evolution Time Critical is exclusively dedicated to the provision of emergency logistics solutions for the automotive industry. With control centres in Germany and the UK, it is situated right in the heart of Europe, but the company’s scope of operations covers the entire globe. Its expertise helps clients to overcome supply problems, whatever the cause, keeping production lines running and customers delighted.
Now being specified at the planning stage of several major automotive logistics operations – by OEMs and suppliers alike – Evolution Time Critical’s services are a vital and intrinsic part of many supply chain operations. As the automotive industry has evolved with new markets and new suppliers, Evolution has evolved with it, establishing expertise in each new arena as it appears.
Evolution Time Critical manages the full range of critical delivery modes, including aircraft charter, helicopters, onboard couriers, dedicated night freighter services, scheduled aircraft, and rapid road transport.
Contact: +44 (0)1332 814914 (24 hour control centre.)
info@evolution-timecritical.com
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i2 Technologies
Throughout its 20-year history of innovation and value delivery, i2 is dedicated to building successful customer partnerships. As a full-service supply chain company, i2 is uniquely positioned to help its clients achieve world-class business results through a combination of consulting, technology, and managed services.
Furthemore, i2 solutions are pervasive in a wide cross section of industries; 20 of the AMR Research Top 25 Global Supply Chains belong to i2 customers.
Learn more at www.i2.com.
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Panalpina
Panalpina was founded on a simple principle – to transport our customers’ goods as quickly and economically as possible, wherever that might be. This is what we have been doing for more than 100 years; and it’s what all of our 14,000 dedicated employees, operating from 500 locations in 90 countries, continue to do each and every day.
We are united by a passion to find better and smarter ways of doing things and by delivering effective solutions contributing to our customer’s success. This passion for solutions has made us one of the world’s leading logistics companies and gives you the peace of mind to concentrate on what you do best.
The automotive industry is a special competence for Panalpina where we offer effective freight forwarding and supply chain management solutions to both large and small industry companies.
For decades we have worked with some of the world’s largest car manufacturers, and their suppliers delivering global supply chain solutions backed by on-the-ground expertise and proven IT systems. Panalpina’s global structure, processes and commitment ensures that automotive components are delivered timely and accurately, with streamlined procedures under the goal of continuous cost reduction.
To find out more about our integrated door-to-door forwarding solutions and innovative service packages tailored specifically to the needs of the automotive sector, email our automotive vertical industry team at auto@panalpina.com |
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Ryder
Ryder has served the global automotive industry for over 25 years and has provided supply chain solutions to pan-European OEMs and Tier One suppliers such as Nissan, Intier, ArvinMeritor and ZF Lemforder for 16 years. They chose Ryder because the company understands the demands of the automotive industry and is able to respond with flexible supply chain solutions that synchronise the supply of parts, products and assemblies to exactly meet customer needs. Put simply, Ryder’s automotive supply chain solutions drive costs down, creating significant value for the customer.
Ryder undertakes comprehensive value chain assessments to analyse the entire supply chain, tracing the flow of material and information from the earliest Tier supplier to the manufacturing, distribution and final product delivery. Ryder minimises duplication waste and variability by deployment of Six Sigma techniques to the supply chain.
At the forefront of innovation, the company has developed its own Logistics Management Suite, a transportation and materials management tool that leverages pre-planned material flow and network design to achieve efficiency. This web-native information technology suite creates a community and utility for all participants in a dynamic supply chain.
In addition, Ryder supports its enterprise-analytical approach with automotive industry experts who speak the language and understand the complexities within the industry, such as order-to-delivery compression, globalisation and modulisation.
This philosophy of investing in people, processes and technologies has paid dividends both for the company and its customers, ensuring that Ryder will continue to keep things moving in the automotive industry for many years to come.
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Schneider Logistics
Schneider Logistics Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of Schneider National, offers technology-based transport management services to customers with supply chain demands within Europe, and internationally.
Schneider Logistics is an asset-free and carrier-neutral provider dedicated to high performance and quality service delivery, particularly in challenging trade environments and complex supply chains.
Schneider Logistics’ services enable its customers to effectively manage the flow of materials, information, and funds through their supply chains, helping them to increase efficiency, reduce costs and improve service levels.
The company has created two European competence centres in Olomouc, Czech Republic and at its headquarters in Venlo, The Netherlands to serve its increasing customer base.
The Schneider Logistics operational model uses a variety of transport services including transport management, freight audits and payment, supply chain solutions design and freight forwarding. The model has evolved out of the company’s experience of the market’s need for professional transport management, gained from its activities throughout Europe, North America and more recently, Asia.
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Global Sponsor |
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) is a leading independent provider of global factory-to-dealer transport solutions for the automotive, agricultural and construction equipment industries.
The company also specialises in handling complex project cargoes such as rail cars, power generators, mining equipment and yachts. WWL’s sophisticated supply chain management services ensure an efficient integration of ocean transportation, inland distribution, terminal handling and a comprehensive range of specialised technical services.
WWL employs 3,200 people and deploys between 55 and 60 modern eco-friendly car carriers and ro-ro vessels, servicing 20 trade routes to five continents. WWL transports 3.3 million vehicles annually: 1.7 million by sea and 1.6 million inland. The company has a strong environmental focus and is an industry leader in developing innovative solutions to reduce the impact of its operations on the environment. WWL is owned by Wallenius Lines of Sweden and Wilh Wilhelmsen of Norway.
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Silver Sponsor |
Able UK
ABLE’s Humber Ports Facility (HPF) is strategically situated between ABP Immingham Port and Killingholme Humber Sea Terminal.
HPF’s services include:
* Vehicle importation, storage, PDI and distribution
* Container storage
* External storage of goods that are not an environmental nuisance factor.
The Group operates four port-related facilities on the River Tees and has a land portfolio in excess of 1,000 hectares throughout the UK.
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Bibby Distribution
Bibby Distribution Automotive has a wealth of experience in the automotive sector, and has a customer focused, KPI-driven approach to its established client relationships.
The company offers a portfolio of services for two- and four-wheel vehicles, including tailor-made dedicated solutions and shared synergy opportunities, including innovative web-enabled ‘track and trace’ systems.
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DFDS
DFDS Tor Line’s Ro-Ro network in Northern and Eastern Europe is well suited to process large numbers of cars. With more than 160 weekly departures, the company is able to offer daily departures on the North Sea as well as in the Baltic Sea.
DFDS Tor Line’s customers can make small or large deliveries every day, as the company is able to optimise the cargo-mix in accordance with the customer’s time preferences.
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ECG
ECG (The Association of European Vehicle Logistics) represents 95 of the leading European vehicle logistics companies from 24 countries across Europe including the Russian Federation and Turkey.
Its members provide distribution, secure storage, preparation and post-production services to manufacturers, daily rental companies and vehicle-leasing organisations.
ECG’s activities are based around four core missions: information, education, integration and lobbying.
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Focal Earth
FOCAL is committed to transport-based projects, supporting and enhancing the current infrastructure to the benefit of its customers.
The Back Haul Trolley uses otherwise wasted rail capacity to deliver in-bound components to manufacturing plants. The Nancore FP7 programme will reduce the cost and weight of the materials employed in transport assets.
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INFORM
Simple and efficient management of complex processes – that is the task of excellent logistics software.
As a specialist in transport logistics, INFORM offers software solutions for real-time optimisation by means of intelligent planning and decision-making: from supplier ramp to production line, from plant to dealer, INFORM’s software solutions give optimised supply chain control.
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Linpac Allibert
LINPAC Allibert is the largest global supplier of reusable packaging solutions to the automotive industry and works closely with OEMs, Tier suppliers and logistics companies to advance the use of reusable packaging across the supply chain.
The GAS (Global Automotive Solutions) team coordinates the global sourcing of reusable packaging solutions by providing technical, financial and project management support.
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Priority Freight
Priority Freight Ltd is a highly experienced specialist company offering Emergency and Express road and air charter logistics worldwide.
Working predominantly within the automotive world, we recognise the importance of avoiding costly production line stoppage, with the capability of collecting urgent consignments from 1kg – 25,000kg within just 90 minutes of your 1st phone call.
We are recognised suppliers to many global automotive manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers, who trust Priority Freight Ltd with their urgent freight requirements due to our outstanding 24-hour service and our cost competitiveness.
Our combined road and air services ensure the most reliable, speedy, economic and efficient handling of your priority freight, 24 hours a day, every day.
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ProAct Limited
ProAct International celebrates 20 years of creating adaptive and innovative supply chain solutions in 2008. SupplyChainDNA is a complete supply chain IT strategy built for the purpose of vision-led perpetual reengineering - ‘proving by doing’ approach, critical in today’s dynamic world.
The company’s unique process/rules engine drives collaboration, visibility and integration at both operational level and as a corporate portal in a multi software/site/contract/company/lingual centralised server Web-based environment . . . power software driving the vision!
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Russian Transport Lines
RTL Group is the first company in Russia to receive and process vessels carrying finished vehicles for the Russian market. Its services include Customs clearance, vehicle processing and storage, and onward distribution to dealer.
RTL operates hubs in the Sea Fishery Port at St Petersburg, with area of about 100,000m2 and in Riga, which covers 70,000m2. The company is also developing the modern, specialised vehicles sea terminal Novaya Gavan in Ust-Luga (near St Petersburg).
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SGS Group
The SGS Group is the global leader and innovator in inspection, verification, testing and certification services. Founded in 1878, SGS is recognised as the global benchmark in quality and integrity.
With more than 48,000 employees, SGS operates a network of over 1,000 offices and laboratories around the world.
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Vehnet
Vehnet’s innovative technology supports some of the industry’s leading organisations in meeting the challenges of finished vehicle logistics.
The company’s uniquely flexible and forward-thinking systems track, manage and optimise new and used vehicle logistics on a global basis, through transit, storage and processing, delivering visibility from factory to end user.
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Volvo Logistics
Volvo Logistics offers services that cover the entire supply chain worldwide. As a manufacturer, saving time and money in your logistics flows is, of course, a major concern.
Volvo Logistics’s extensive experience in the automotive industry and its ability to develop cost-efficient logistics solutions means that it adds an extra competitive edge to your business.
Let’s be successful together!
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The 2009 conference promises to be bigger and better, with increased support from car makers, leading suppliers and service providers. If you'd like to get involved, please contact Louis Yiakoumi at louis.yiakoumi@ultimamedia.com
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