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Airbus Sets 2024 Aircraft Production and Delivery Target

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights the announcement from Airbus setting aggressive aircraft production and delivery targets for 2024. 2024 Production Goal This week, commercial aircraft manufacturer Airbus established a goal to deliver upwards of 800 commercial aircraft this year. All rights reserved.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 27 – February 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

She also said the company planned to ask workers to return to the office five days a week in 2024. percent drop in annual sales, UPS forecast a 2024 upswing of as little as 1.1 Higher labor costs and lower package demand resulted in fourth-quarter sales and 2024 guidance that missed analysts expectations. percent in early U.S.

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Not predictive

Supply Chain Movement

Analyst firm Gartner makes the latter trend more concrete by predicting that half of all companies will adopt generative AI for the supply chain in 2024, in particular for generating additional software code, creating KPI dashboards and utilizing internal chatbots.

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Shrinkflation Risks Consumer Blowback

Enterra Insights

” CPG’s Rock and a Hard Place Consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers are well aware of public’s attitude towards shrinkflation. It’s definitely a conundrum for CPG manufacturers and shrinkflation is a strategy that could backfire. President Biden is calling on companies to put a stop to shrinkflation.”

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Adaptation: The Key to Growing Sales with Supply Chain Uncertainty

QAD

In 2019, I would have been highly skeptical of the scenario described above but it’s my true story in 2024. The example also doesn’t have to apply only to the automotive industry – all manufacturers must adapt to increasing disruption. Of course, we weren’t going back at that time. Well, it’s mostly true.

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Will Boeing Add to its Corporate Challenges- Labor Relations Front

Supply Chain Matters

In this industry specific Supply Chain Matters commentary , we provide perspectives on aerospace and commercial aircraft producer Boeing ’s added challenge in 2024, that being on the labor relations front. As noted in our prediction, the lens in 2024 further turns toward labor negotiations involving U.S. The future of a U.S.

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For CPG Companies, Risk Mitigation Is a Key Success Factor

BlueYonder

Manufacturing and Supply Chain; Dinesh Vyas, Director of Supply Chain Solutions at Dole; and Felice Miller, Business Strategy Leader of Retail and Consumer Goods at Microsoft. But, as demonstrated in the IDC infographic, CPG companies often feel the effects of disruption to a greater extent than other manufacturers.