Automotive - Performance driven

In the hyper-competitive automotive industry, materials handling is emerging as an indispensable tool for driving down supply chain costs.

-- Modern Materials Handling, 2/1/2006

Automotive: Performance driven
Agile, Flexibile, Efficient.
Those may be the three most important characteristics of the automotive supply chain today. Automakers and suppliers can no longer mass produce the cars they want to build with the hope that the public will buy them. Instead, they have to build to order, offering thousands of different combinations of options all the while taking cost out of the supply chain.