Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 11, 2022

Grand Opening of New Austin Texas Assembly Facility. Last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk delivered the first vehicle produced at the EV maker’s new final assembly facility located just outside Austin, Texas. The opening of the Austin facility follows the grand opening of the Tesla Berlin, Germany facility that occurred in late March.

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Exiger Perspectives

AUGUST 7, 2024

Carrie Wibben PRESIDENT, EXIGER XSB’s product suite is used by thousands of engineers, item managers and catalogers to prevent supply chain interruptions and mitigate risks from diminishing supply sources, obsolescence and nonconforming parts. This acquisition follows Exiger’s acquisitions of Versed AI and aDolus last month.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Citing sources familiar with plans, The Wall Street Journal report ( Paid subscription or metered view ) indicates that the semiconductor producer plans to announce in the coming months the building of a second cutting-edge plant north of Phoenix, Arizona , a presence that the chip maker originally committed to in 2020. In June, U.S.

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E2open

OCTOBER 1, 2018

AUSTIN, TX – October 1, 2018 – E2open , the one place in the cloud to run your supply chain, today announced the acquisition of Cloud Logistics, a leading innovator of transportation management systems (TMS) for the global supply chain market. MONDAY 01 OCTOBER 2018.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 8, 2024

Paid subscription ) Citing informed sources, the report indicates that Samsung now plans to invest upwards of $44 billion in an advanced logic microprocessor fabrication complex just outside of Austin, Texas. Related Samsung Electronics Report The Wall Street Journal reported that Samsung Electronics is Doubling its Planned U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 16, 2024

chip production presence in Texas, in a complex just outside of Austin. As noted in a prior Supply Chain Matters semiconductor supply chain commentary, The Wall Street Journal had previously reported that Samsung Electronics would be doubling its planned U.S. According to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 26, 2023

Of the four existing volume production sites, Fremont California , Austin Texas , Shanghai, China and Berlin, Germany , Austin and Berlin are not currently optimized for available capacity at the present time. Hence, there is some upside capacity to take advantage of.

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SupplyShift

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

And headlines touting new milestones in disclosure and socially responsible investment are often just fanciful “greenwishing” (in the coinage of Duncan Austin, a former ESG investment manager). Integrate supplier sustainability into your procurement processes Include supplier scorecard data in performance reviews and contracts.

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SupplyShift

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

And headlines touting new milestones in disclosure and socially responsible investment are often just fanciful “greenwishing” (in the coinage of Duncan Austin, a former ESG investment manager). Integrate supplier sustainability into your procurement processes. “Measurement is often nonstandard, incomplete, imprecise, and misleading.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2023

Investor Event and Master Plan 3 Tesla conducted is annual investor event this week at its Austin, Texas facilities and unveiled “ Master Plan Part 3 ” which aims toward becoming the largest automaker by volume by 2030. That equates to the ability to produce and sell 20 million vehicles globally.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 8, 2022

An added challenge has been the ramp-up of new manufacturing facilities in Austin, Texas and Berlin Germany. A challenge related to the vehicle was reportedly the design of a new vehicle platform and the sourcing of battery cells. Regarding these two new facilities, CEO Elon Musk recently described them as “ gigantic money furnaces.”

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Musk himself had previously stated that the newest Austin and Berlin facilities were money pits for cash burn and for day to day challenges. Each added plant investment seemed to include significant executive and employee turnover and with a lot of pain and learning along the way.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The narrative was that raw material cost inflation indeed impacted the bottom line, along with some delays in the ramping up of the two newer factories, one being Austin, Texas and the other Berlin Germany. Profitability also did not meet expectations.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 27, 2024

JAGGAER provides configurable source-to-pay and supplier collaboration software for direct and indirect procurement processes through a single, unified platform. Terms of this acquisition were not disclosed. Steve Murphy will reportedly continue in his role as CEO of Epicor.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 26, 2022

This report cited informed sources indicating that the State of Oklahoma is being considered as a location for this facility but that there are no guarantees that an agreement will be reached. The agreement further points to automakers seeking more deemed friendly nations for strategic materials sourcing needs.

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E2open

DECEMBER 8, 2022

AUSTIN, Texas – Dec. Channel partners visit multiple sources to build a complete view of sales leads, which is a time-consuming and inefficient process. This eliminates the need for manual interaction during procurement, increases RFP response rate percentages, and expands access to contract rates for shippers.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 7, 2022

based consumer electronics provider Apple was considering sourcing of the chip fabrication of its advanced design semiconductor processors within the U.S. The implications of this potential sourcing move were obviously significant from an overall industry and U.S. In mid-November, we highlighted reports indicating that U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 9, 2024

This provider’s software suite supports global transportation sourcing, shipment and order visibility, multimodal optimization, product, customs and trade compliance. Union Square Advisors LLC served as financial advisor and Sidley Austin served as legal advisor to Exiger on the transaction.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Supply chain network and transportation optimization can help make better sourcing and multi-stop route decisions that ultimately result in route design that balances low costs with higher service. Austin Chrzanowski is the Product Manager of Network Optimization and Transportation Optimization Technologies at LLamasoft.

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