Dziczek: After the pandemic, restoring component supply and customer demand will form the next hurdles
By Marcus Williams2020-04-15T10:58:00
In the second of Ultima Media’s new Livestream webinars, editor-in-chief Christopher Ludwig was joined by Kristin Dziczek, vice-president of the US Center for Automotive Research (CAR), to talk about a range of issues facing the global automotive manufacturing and supply chain, and what it means for the US market…
The Covid-19 pandemic has swept the world and closed car plants from east to west. Production has begun again in China, where the virus originated, and that recovery is also likely to sweep the globe in the coming months. However, like other industries, automotive relies on global supply chains, and logistics constraints such as border delays and safety checks, are going to be more difficult to solve. This problem is compounded by the likely ‘demand shock’ on those supply chains as consumers return to the forecourts.