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20 Years of Outsourcing Come Back to Haunt Boeing

Logistics Viewpoints

The Dreamliner program was launched in April of 2004 with an order for 50 aircraft from All Nippon Airways. Instead of developing the aircraft in-house and sourcing parts from suppliers,” Dr. Tang explained, “Boeing decided to outsource 70% of the design, engineering and manufacturing of entire modules to over 50 strategic partners.”

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Supplier Diversity: From Checking-the-Box to a C-Suite Strategy

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In 2021, The Hackett Group found in their Supplier Diversity Study that 69% of respondents had global supplier diversity programs with intentions to expand that program over the next several years. This support and partnership can come in the form of regulatory action, guidelines and targets, or nongovernment organizations (NGO).

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Global PMI Levels in July Remain of Concern

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and perspectives on reported July 2023 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. The July numbers signal a continued downturn in global manufacturing conditions with output and new order rates reportedly falling at faster rates. Source: S&P Global and Other Sources.

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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

According to a widely cited framework by Christopher and Peck from “Building the Resilient Supply Chain” (2004), supply chain resilience consists of four dimensions: robustness, agility, redundancy, and flexibility. These dimensions are briefly defined and illustrated below.

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together. There are no value network solutions in the market to enable plan/source/make and deliver visibility holistically. Global Summit. Reflection. As leaders, be patient.

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Coronavirus Highlights Fragility of Global Supply Networks

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Corona v irus could wreck the global auto industry.’. Procurement professionals around the world are sitting up and paying attention, especially in sectors with globally integrated supply chains. Coronavirus could wreck the global auto industry.” . Coronavirus could wreck the global auto industry.” . Heavy industry.

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Disruption in China Ripples Across Global Supply Chains in April 2022

Supply Chain Matters

In this Supply Chain Matters commentary, we highlight the latest quantitative data related to global manufacturing PMI activity levels for April. Global Manufacturing Output Levels Declined. Global Manufacturing Output Levels Declined. The Global Manufacturing Output sub-index reportedly dropped to a contraction value of 48.5