COMMENT: The future of car production lies in supply chain digitalisation

The success of the automotive industry is arguably one of the by-products of the invention of the production line. The system’s efficiency lies in its ability to devise a standard, step-by-step process for mass-producing a single model and then recreate that whole procedure as a series of workstations, each devoted to a single step. But the certainties and uniformity that worked for Henry Ford at the beginning of the 20th century have all but disappeared today.