In today’s manufacturing environment, OEM’S are faced with continuing challenges involving production and relationships to supplier locations.  The logistics of material flow, communication, sequencing, and the return of transport items require substantial coordination to meet production demand.  At AIAG, through volunteer efforts of the OEM’s and suppliers, their collaborative efforts have developed several products and services to harmonize processes across the automotive industry for its members to utilize addressing logistical challenges.

Test your Supply Chain Management knowledge by taking our free online assessment. The MMLKA covers key areas such as Basic Concepts, Inventory Management, Inbound/Outbound Logistics, International Trade and Customs and more.

This guide serves as an aid for automotive suppliers in the development of their business continuity programs and can be adapted for small, medium and large organizations. It can also be used to validate an existing business continuity program.

Recommended practices for managing the information driving long-distance supply chains.

This publication helps the user design a world-class automotive shipping and receiving system. Regulatory standards, automotive mandates, best- practice guidelines, application issues, and other considerations are covered.

By using the Materials Off-Shore Sourcing document individuals can assess and improve their supply chain logistics in the overall timing, consistency, compliance and costs of off-shore sourcing in a just-in-time environment through transportation lanes.

Materials Handling Benchmarking

The Materials Handling Benchmarking work group consists of a group of industry professionals who meet regularly to discuss material rack design, optimization of density and quality features for the effective transport of commodities into assembly plants. The group’s current hot topic is rack “life cycle” analysis and best practices around the reuse and life-maximization of racks, including considerations of safety, fatigue, and load handling.