article thumbnail

Boeing’s Production Quality Crisis Significantly Escalates

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides a further update on the ongoing production quality, corporate reputation and other challenges that collectively surround commercial aircraft producer Boeing. That was up from a reported 10 percent in 2013. He further added: “ We are in an industry where quality and safety is top priority.”

Quality 59
article thumbnail

The State of Supply Chain and Logistics Innovation

Talking Logistics

In a 2013 white paper, the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics defined supply chain innovation as “the combining and application of a mix of inventions, existing processes, and technologies in a new way that achieves a desirable change in cost, quality, cash and/or service.” What is supply chain innovation?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (June 3-7, 2013)

Talking Logistics

In this week’s news… UPS Freight Announces 2013 Rate Adjustment. Cass Freight Index Report for May 2013. The rate adjustment will take effect on June 10, 2013, and applies to minimum charge, less-than-truckload (LTL) and truckload (TL) rates, and accessorial charges.”. The cloud builds up steam ( Financial Times ).

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (May 27-31, 2013)

Talking Logistics

NAFTA Trade in March 2013. Finally, an article in the Wall Street Journal this week poses an interesting question: Is it better to cut ties with a supplier that doesn’t meet expectations — whether it’s safety standards, quality metrics, or other important factors — or is it better to work with them to improve?

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (October 14-18, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Years from now, when we look back at 2013, we might say this was the year where logistics truly became a strategic weapon for companies. Tweet The post This Week in Logistics News (October 14-18, 2013) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. What are the odds I’ll use them again? Be Sociable, Share!

article thumbnail

Metrics and Issues to Consider in SQM (Supplier Quality Management) By 5 Big Industries

GlobalTranz

This is the second post in a three-part series on Supplier Quality Management also known as SQM. In the first post our long tme guest blogger, Chuck Intrieri of The Lean Supply Chai n, gave us 5 core metrics to evaluate supplier performance using supplier quality management and a 4 step process to execute. Quality Metrics by Product.

article thumbnail

SCM Best Paper Award Winners 2013 (1/2)

SCM Research

The quality of these papers has certainly raised the bar for our own manuscripts. LaLonde Best Paper Award (best paper published in the Journal of Business Logistics) goes to The Roles of Procedural and Distributive Justice in Logistics Outsourcing Relationships by Adriana Rossiter Hofer, A. Michael Knemeyer and Paul R. Thanks to Christian F.

SCM 154