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Space: The final logistics and supply chain management frontier

Kinaxis

by Ilyas Kucukcay Recent advancements in the space launch market may indicate an increased need for logistics and supply chain management in outer space operations. Today’s government-based space agencies collaborate to advance the science, technology and services needed to support their programs.

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The next supply chain frontier: space

Resilinc

Almost 50 years after humans last walked on the Moon, NASA and its public and commercial partners—as well as its counterparts and competitors around the planet—are well into a new era of space exploration; one that aims to send humans 140 million miles to Mars. and its allies?

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7 Supply Chain Cost Saving Ideas from SpaceX

Supply Chain Opz

In this article, we will explain to you 7 cost saving ideas that you can learn from the space program. In June 2002, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation or SpaceX was established with the goal to make the space launch service way cheaper. This cuts cost down to as low as that of a commercial airplane.

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule September 8 2023- Boeing and Toyota

Supply Chain Matters

Yesterday highly noted Seattle Times aerospace industry reporter Domenic Gates reported that the manufacturing defect: “ is likely to reduce the MAX delivery rate by about a third, leading to a negative cash flow and a financial loss for the third quarter, the company’s chief financial officer said on Thursday.”

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The Global Trade Compliance Market is Crazy!

Logistics Viewpoints

The problem, Randy Rotchin, the director of cross border government solutions at Avalara, points out “is that there is an incredible gap between how products are described commercially by trade and how they are expressed in the national customs tariff schedules.”

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Global Independence: Reimagining the “What if Scenario”

NC State SCRC

I had the pleasure of speaking with Peter Guinto, who is the President of Government, Defense and Aerospace Business at Resilinc about the ‘art’ of managing supply chains in a volatile environment. There is a need to learn from models and adopt to models too.

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China Restricts Exports on Two Chip Metals, Raising Supply Chain Concerns

Exiger Perspectives

[Read the full client alert: China announces export restrictions on two essential metals ] Aside from the making of semiconductors, gallium and germanium are key for various military applications, from night vision goggles to highly advanced communications and sensor equipment in aerospace and space platforms.

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