Top Automaker Executives Meet in Chicago - Autologistics 2000, Oct. 3-4

26 September 2000
Top Automaker Executives Meet in Chicago - Autologistics 2000, Oct. 3-4
    CHICAGO, Sept. 26 With the participation of the senior
management of DaimlerChrysler, Ford, VW, BMW and major Logistics Service
Providers, Automotive Logistics is holding its first conference in Chicago on
the 3-4 October 2000.
    "Autologistics 2000" will feature discussions and presentations on e-
commerce and information management, lean and agile logistics and contemporary
supply chain management, by Jerry Joyce -- Ford, Dave Hodgson --
DaimlerChrysler, Dr. Krog -- VW, Peter Weiss -- COVISINT & DaimlerChrysler,
Tim Phillips -- BMW, Winfried Feldkamp -- DaimlerChrysler, Hakan Larsson --
Schenker AG, Rudolf Luttmann -- Volkswagen Transport, Gene Tyndall -- Ryder,
John Lanigan -- Logistics.com, Ben Gordon -- 3Plex, plus many more.
    This event is the most important annual event on the subject due to the
quality of its participants and subjects discussed.  The emergence of the
information economy has only served to emphasise logistics as fundamental
management discipline within the contemporary corporation.  The automotive
industry is wrestling with problems such as the nature of supply chain
relationships in the context of internet exchanges and the consequences of
exploding demand for transportation.  Competition is driving a fundamental
redesign of the automotive supply chain, a change that offers both a vast
increase in productivity and the potential to transform the structure of the
industry.  Logistics is thrusting forward to become a dominant marketing
resource.  No-longer a mere cost driver, in the toughest market segments the
competitors who excel in logistics will be the market leaders.
    This conference aims to shed at least some light on these issues by
bringing together the most senior logisticians in the automotive sector
alongside leading practitioners and thinkers from outside.  Drawing on the
decision-makers from around the globe, it aspires to explore the shape of
logistics beyond the JIT era.

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