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		<title>The Toyota Recall</title>
		<link>http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2010/02/01/the-toyota-recall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Banker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toyota, the company that invented the Toyota Production System and brought lean manufacturing techniques to the world’s attention, is one of the most respected names in Supply Chain Management. But over the past few weeks, Toyota has recalled about 9 million vehicles worldwide due to problems related to accelerator pedals, and last week the company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ford&#8217;s Service Parts Supply Chain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Banker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently spoke with key members of Ford’s service parts supply chain and IT organization in North America to better understand how the company is using SAP’s end-to-end service parts supply chain solution (SAP is an ARC client). Ford and Caterpillar Logistics, as key customers and partners, have helped SAP to build out this solution, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cash for Clunkers: In Praise of Honda&#8217;s Supply Chain</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Banker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, President Obama signed into law a $2 billion extension to the “Cash for Clunkers” program, after the initial $1 billion in funding was consumed in the program’s first week.  The Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save (CARS) program, the official name of this legislation, offers consumers up to $4,500 to trade in gas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A European Perspective on Supplier Risk Management</title>
		<link>http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2009/08/06/a-european-perspective-on-supplier-risk-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Banker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Danny Boeykens, a partner at MÖBIUS, a European boutique consulting firm, read my posting on “Supplier Risk Management and the Automotive Supply Chain,” he pointed me to a Financial Times article by Richard Milne that provides a European perspective on this problem.    As stated in the article, “When Edscha, a German manufacturer of sun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supplier Risk Management and the Automotive Supply Chain</title>
		<link>http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2009/07/31/supplier-risk-management-and-the-automotive-supply-chain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Banker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across a white paper from PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) called “Seizing Opportunity: Linking Risk and Performance”.  In one place, the paper highlights a “global automotive manufacturer” that was “experiencing significant losses due to a key risk in its supply chain:  supplier bankruptcies.”  The company faced the direct costs of those failures, as well as the [...]]]></description>
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