Supply Chain Research

Automotive manufacturing in the U.S. is facing a variety of challenges in the near-term that will require long-term strategies to fix. A shortage of semiconductors has led: General Motors to close four plants through mid-March; Ford to warn 10% to 20% of output could be lost in Q1’20; Nissan to cut its output target for fiscal 2021 by 3.6% and; Honda to reduce its production targets by 2.2% for the current fiscal year. It will take some time to recover with Nissan’s COO, Ashwani Gupta, stating “we do believe that in May or June we should be out of this crisis”. Toyota’s CFO, Kenta Kon, m...