The new 300,000m² facility stands at the forefront of aluminium manufacturing and engineering expertise in Slovakia, with an annual capacity of 150,000 vehicles a year, supporting the company’s on going commitment to deliver high technology lightweight vehicles to its customers.
The Volkswagen Slovakia plant in Bratislava is unique in the world in that five car brands are made under one roof. Around 1000 robots operate at the plant, which has a total area of about 160 football pitches, and the cable car which transports completed cars is globally unique.
As the automotive industry addresses
the twin challenge of digitalising supply chain operations, while transitioning
to fully electric powertrains, further obstacles appear in the form of increased
legislation and sustainability targets. In the face of increasing competition
from new entrants to the industry, the established players are facing up to a
true tsunami of regulations, emanating not only from the EU but from many other
jurisdictions around the world. Get the keys at Odette2025 to turn these challenges
into competitive advantages for your company.
Orange Business Services,
certified provider of European Network Exchange (ENX) services to many
companies in France, has announced that their service will shortly be discontinued.
This means that many users will be searching for an alternative solution in
good time to ensure that there is no disruption to their EDI exchanges. The
Odette file transfer protocol OFTP2 offers a cost effective and reliable
alternative solution tailored to the needs of automotive companies of all
sizes.
As the use of the MMOG SCM
capability assessment continues to expand with more than 25,000 users across
the globe, Odette continues to help supply chain practitioners to fully
understand and optimise their use of the tool. We will soon start a fresh round
of meetings with industry members to review the latest supply chain best
practice and regulatory challenges. We are also pleased to welcome a new MMOG trainer in Italy.
The deployment of standard
digital messages to support communication across all Finished Vehicle Logistics
processes continuesacross the industry
with more implementations planned. Odette and ECG are also planning the next
steps to help automotive companies and finished vehicle LSPs streamline their
invoicing processes and meet the upcoming ViDA regulatory requirements.
An increasing number of EU member
states are obliging their companies to be able to receive invoices in a
structured electronic format (often according to the EN16931 standard invoice).
Use the Odette Invoice Viewer
& Converter if you need to accept UBL and CII invoices from your business
partners but are not ready to process them. The tool is available free of
charge.
The European automotive industry fully recognises the benefits to be gained from eInvoicing. After all, we have been doing it for the past 40 years! We also recognise the desire of EU tax authorities to introduce a single eInvoicing standard in an attempt to close the so-called ‘VAT Gap’ but we must strive to ensure that current, well established automotive eInvoicing practices continue to be accepted. We are pleased to report that progress is being made on this front.
The European automotive industry
fully supports the introduction of more sustainable practices to minimise the
negative environmental impacts of non-optimised packaging and non-recyclable
packaging waste. At the moment, however, the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste
Regulations (PPWR) present the industry with an unclear roadmap which is
hampering our collaborative efforts to develop solutions which are both efficient
and legal. We therefore continue our attempts to influence the law makers to
modify aspects of the legislation to make it more readily applicable to
automotive packaging practices.
For various reasons, including
concerns about safety, quality and recyclability, Governmental Authorities,
Vehicle Manufacturers and Battery Suppliers all want to be able to uniquely identify
the individual components which make up a complete EV battery pack. To assist
in the collection of data, Odette has published a standard digital message for
Battery Data Exchange.
