Don't miss out! AIAG’s next Future Automotive Expert (FAE) event is scheduled for August 26^th. Featuring General Motors’ global logistics executive director Edgard Pezzo and director Tom Ramos, this midday webinar will explore Finished Vehicle Delivery Tracking for Dealer & Customer Visibility.

Join AIAG and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Eli Levine and Thomas Wenning for our next complimentary webinar on September 14, 2021: DOE Programs: Better Buildings, Better Plants and 50001 Ready.

Along with explaining how DOE’s Better Plants and 50001 Ready programs help U.S. manufacturers develop mature energy management programs and identify energy efficiency and cost saving opportunities, Levine and Wenning will detail the no-cost tools, resources, and initiatives DOE offers to support U.S. manufacturing competitiveness and decarbonization efforts.

“The sustainability reporting landscape is undergoing a transformation” has been a sustainability truism for years now, but the chorus promoting this adage is growing stronger, louder, and more convincing. Why?

We’re finally starting to see tangible change. The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) have merged into the Value Reporting Foundation. They and three other sustainability reporting bodies — CDP, Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), known as the Group of Five — have called for closer coordination and launched a prototype climate-related financial disclosure standard.

After several months of discussion, the German Parliament ("Bundestag") adopted the "Act on Corporate Due Diligence in Supply Chains" (Supply Chain Due Diligence Act – "Act" or "LkSG") on 11 June 2021.¹ The Act imposes, for the first time, a binding obligation on companies to establish, implement and update due diligence procedures to improve compliance with specified core human rights and, to a limited extent, environmental protection in supply chains.

Join AIAG's Brian Martensen and Plexus International's Jeremy Hazel for a free webinar on August 18th!

Join us in welcoming the newest member of the AIAG Quality Steering Committee (QSC): NXP’s internal/registrar audit director, Joe Beyer!

GM’s Dave Leich says the last 18 months in automotive have been unlike anything he’s seen in over three decades in the industry. As executive director, global supply chain, at General Motors Corporation, Leich leads the assembly, propulsion, and stamping operations, as well as the material launch execution and the demand/supply planning and scheduling organizations. His responsibilities also include GM’s global supply chain operations for North America, South America, and Asia-Pacific.

Ready for more detail about this year’s Supply Chain + International Trade Summit? Check out a few agenda highlights below, and don’t forget to head to the AIAG Store today for more information and to reserve your seat!

The AIAG Supply Chain Products + Services team welcomes Sivad Q. Davis as its new project coordinator. Davis has worked for the past two years as an AIAG customer service representative, which allowed him to build a strong foundation in the broad scope of what AIAG provides the industry — from publications, events, and webinars to training and certifications.

In the wake of rising international condemnation over the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang), the US government is ramping up its forced labor enforcement actions, most recently by issuing a new withhold release order (WRO) on June 23 that will impact the solar industry and by adding five new companies with ties to Xinjiang on the Department of Commerce’s (DOC) Entity List.