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In this episode, Stefania gives us insights into Mercado Libre’s massive scale, with more than 145 million unique visitors, making it a powerhouse in the region. She talks about how her experience has prepared her to lead e-commerce growth in Latin America’s automotive sector. We’ll also hear about their cutting-edge logistics, like ultra-fast two-hour delivery, and how Mercado Libre is shaping the future of parts e-commerce through technology, data, and customer-focused solutions.

Today we are going to talk about the international trading group business. Joe has plenty of experience in the north American aftermarket. We talk about the consolidation of distributors in the US and how that effects NEXUS, their USP for their members and an important part of that is an ecosystem of startups they are building providing both new technology to the market as well as new revenue streams to their members and even distributors.

The increase of e-commerce sales in the US during COVID which jumped to nearly 15%. How Nexus is dealing with the sustainability & electrification topics...

If you’ve worked with Gates before in the Aftermarket chances are high that you’ve stumbled over the name of todays guest which is: Jonathan Amo – We know each other for quite some time and it feels at least for me that he is kind of the jack of all trades at Gates – all roads lead to Jon somehow. We talk about that of course but moreover about his favourite topic which is data. Jon’s a big advocat of data quality in the automotive aftermarket and his mission is to make Gates the #1 company for Data Quality.
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Today we’re getting nerdy again talking about data. Erik is a real expert of the matter and Experian is a massive company dealing with all sorts of data. We discuss their automotive or especially their aftermarket business. We talk about VIO data because that’s the field where we have a strong partnership with Experian, the differences of all the markets they serve. We talk about hiring and how to get the right people for all those data-related jobs in the industry, the exponential increase of data through topics like e-commerce or in-vehicle data. We make some predictions on the effect...

Today we are talking about the collision & repair industry in North America. Dirk is outlining the whole I-Car program to us. How they provide education to technicians with a strong focus on ADAS & EV Technology. How the collision repair process in the US compares to Europe and why independent garages play a way more important role.
How the I Car training and certification program works in detail, the missing regulation regarding workshops in the US, what role insurance companies play for the N-American repair industry and how EVS and advanced driving systems will shape the market in the...

Today we’re diving deep into the Data topic with Gigig Ho from SEMA data and I couldn’t think of anyone better suited for the topic.
Gigi’s a real data nerd so to speak dealing with aftermarket data nearly all her professional life.
We talked about the development towards a digital aftermarket within the last 20 years, why the discussion about data should be more about actual use cases, the uniqueness of the special equipment sector, the rise of e commerce and how to deal with it as well as how electric vehicles will affect the market of specialty parts in...

As she’s responsible for the whole AMERICAS region we talked about differences in the markets and their local approach. Motorsports sponsoring, specifically the Schaeffler Funny car – I am not making that up, that’s how its called. But also serious business as the difficult supply chain situation during and post pandemic, Annas favorite topic she’s dealing with Digitalisation and how it supports creating additional services, how telematics data plays into that and the two nig Es – Ecommerce & Electrification.
Anna has a vast knowledge in all these fields, she’s pretty smart, it was great to get all the insights...

We talk about how remanufacturing fits into the broader sustainability topic, what MERA has achieved in its already 12 years of existence, that wording plays an important role in the whole process of bringing remanufactured parts back into the market, that these parts are also a great business case and how topics like electrification & E-commerce affect the remanufactured parts business.

John’s highly knowledgeable in the field, extremely passionate, he’s a real advocate of the remanufacturing topic and I think he’s on the right track with all his initiatives we’re going to talk about, genuinely nice guy as well –...

We talked about how it feels having the first proper Automechanika Frankfurt since four years, how difficult it was keeping his business running during the pandemic, if we still need trade shows and how the concept might change in the future.

We are going into the ITG segment again talking telematics data and use cases, what makes Global One Automotive unique, E-commerce and the big platforms stepping into the aftermarket, electrification of the car park and if big fleets will be future of mobility.