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The automotive industry's leading specialist in emergency logistics is expanding its support for European vehicle manufacturers as they grow their global footprints. Evolution Time Critical has appointed Steve Risby in a newly-created position of director - Deutschland, where he will be responsible specifically for supporting auto makers and suppliers with headquarters in Germany. He will be based at the company's control centre in Dusseldorf and will work alongside three other new positions, each bringing specialist expertise in global supply chain robustness and problem resolution.
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"European vehicle manufacturers are proving extremely successful outside the region, globalizing their sales, their manufacturing and their supply chains," explains Evolution managing director Brad Brennan. "The key is to achieve this while continuing to drive lean operations. For supply chain planning and management, emergency logistics is increasingly seen as a strategic enabler that allows cost and capital to be taken out without effecting the reliability and flexibility of parts deliveries to manufacturing plants."
Evolution Time Critical, now in its tenth year, has seen rapid growth in 2011 as global supply chains, leaned by recession and interrupted by natural disaster, are stretched to feed rising global demand from manufacturing plants in every region. Newly-appointed director of Evolution Time Critical's Deutschland Centre, Steve Risby, says the current situation highlights the need for rigorous analysis, right from the earliest stages of footprint planning.
"The types of supply chain failures we are seeing now are subtly different to those experienced pre-recession. Combine that with the rapidly changing manufacturing map and the lessons from the natural disaster that hit North East Japan in March and we have a significant need for vehicle manufacturers and suppliers to revisit both their contingency planning and the resolution techniques they have at their disposal," says Risby. "Strengthening our support for German vehicle manufacturers will help them continue their successful expansion worldwide."
About Evolution Time Critical
Evolution Time Critical is the world's leading specialist in emergency logistics for the automotive industry. Analysts are available 24 hours a day, ready to develop and implement solutions in any part of the world within a 15-minute response window, calling on a vast range of techniques, skills and contacts to ensure that goods reach their destination on time.
The skills of Evolution's team are also available for consulting projects, helping clients to achieve additional savings in their supply chains while also strengthening and improving manufacturing efficiency. Increasingly, Evolution has found that emergency logistics is playing an integral role in lean strategies as the automotive industry returns to higher production volumes, allowing further inventory reductions while maintaining the reliability of deliveries to manufacturing plants.
The expertise and techniques developed by Evolution for the automotive sector are also benefitting the aerospace and marine industries, where the company helps clients to release capital trapped in spare parts by facilitating urgent parts deliveries, and return aircraft and ships to service more quickly.
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