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We really can’t predict the future … because nobody can. What we can do, though, is help auto manufacturers recognize, prepare for, and profit from whatever comes next.Auto Supply Chain Champions gives you timely and relevant insights and best practices from industry leaders.
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Labor Day Break | The Auto Supply Chain Champions Podcast (opens the original)
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The Auto Supply Chain Champions Podcast is taking a short break this week. To listeners in the US, Jan and Tom Roberts wish you a Happy Labor Day. The next episode releases on September 14, and it turns the microphone toward the people the industry keeps saying it needs: two supply chain students from Wayne State University who have already spent time inside the workplace. Jan and Tom wanted to know what these students expected when they walked in, whether the reality matched, and how they handl
Supply Chain Challenges in the Ultra Luxury Auto Sector (opens the original)
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The automotive supply chain runs on scale. Volume buys capacity, amortizes tooling, and puts a buyer at the front of the queue. Karma Automotive builds roughly 150 vehicles a year, so none of that leverage exists. A traditional tier-one scrap earns more in a week than Karma needs in twelve months. In this episode of the Auto Supply Chain Champions Podcast, Jan Griffiths and Tom Roberts sit down with Juan Lalinde, Director of Global Purchasing at Karma Automotive, the California ultra-luxury auto
The Office of Resilience: Automotive's Missing Function (opens the original)
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Resilience is the most used word in automotive, and one of the least staffed functions in it. It turns up in board decks, on conference panels, and in webinar titles, and then the next disruption hits, and the response doesn't look any different from the last one: a war room, a handful of empowered people, and a lot of luck. In this episode, Jan Griffiths and Tom Roberts sit down with Ambrose Conroy, CEO of Seraph, to put structure behind a phrase most leaders use loosely. Ambrose built his firm
Automotive Supply Chain Resiliency: Trade Shocks, Commodity Risk, and AI Scenario Modeling (opens the original)
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The disruption isn't coming. It arrived with dates attached. July 1 brought the USMCA review, and Canada got left in the cold. July 20 marks the end of the Section 301 investigations. July 24 is when the Section 122 tariffs, currently capped at 10% and set to expire, have no automatic renewal. Q2 wasn't a quarter to review. It was a quarter to survive. In this host-only Q2 review, Jan Griffiths and Tom Roberts trade the guest chair for a hard look at a quarter that refused to sit still. Trade po
Is USMCA Dead? What the 2026 Renegotiation Means for the Auto Supply Chain (opens the original)
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The auto industry didn’t lose USMCA on July 1st. It lost the assumption that the rules would sit still. The agreement isn’t dead. Nobody packed their boxes. But the US declined to renew the deal as written, and it opened what could be a 10-year renegotiation of the trade framework that governs somewhere between 1.6 and 2 trillion dollars a year, with autos at roughly 18% of that. The proposal on the table increases North American content from 75% to 82%, with half of that produced specifically i
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