Cost-cutting drive. (Out of the Box).Facing another tough year in Brazil, automakers continue cost-cutting in logistics. General Motors recently awarded TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. Logistics a three-year, US$2.5 million contract to manage car parts' distribution for two auto plants in Sao Paulo. GM plans to introduce four vehicles in Brazil this year as part of a $1 billion investment through 2004. Ford Motor Co. hopes to reduce shipping costs for its recently inaugurated $1.9 billion plant in northeastern Brazil. The plant will depend on the $12.5 million Ponta da Laje port, slated to be ready to move parts before July. The automaker has already assigned the logistics contract to Crowley American Transport. Volkswagen has built a Sao Paulo warehouse to consolidate auto parts Auto parts are components of automobiles. They mainly are, in alphabetic order (only car specific articles or articles with car section):
Fiat, which last year unseated Volkswagen to become the market leader for the first time in 42 years, halved halve tr.v. halved, halv·ing, halves 1. To divide (something) into two equal portions or parts. 2. To lessen or reduce by half: halved the recipe to serve two. 3. its staff to fewer than 12,000 employees by outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. materials handling Materials handling The loading, moving, and unloading of materials. The hundreds of different ways of handling materials are generally classified according to the type of equipment used. , maintenance and logistics at Betim and its other plants. |
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