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Understanding the Challenges Facing Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing Firms

USC Consulting Group

Businesses navigating the global aerospace and defense sector reached new heights in 2018, generating record revenues and laying the foundation for sustained organizational success through fast and furious merger and acquisition activity, according to research from PricewaterhouseCoopers. And the aerospace firm lost more than $2.9

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Procurement KPIs & Metrics: What To Focus on and How To Measure

Precoro

Keep reading to learn in detail about the top 13 most crucial procurement metrics, how to track them, and what to focus on to drive the most value to your company. This metric helps the procurement department reduce future costs and prevent price increases due to inflation or other economic factors. Cost Avoidance.

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Supply Chains to Admire: 2016 Results

Supply Chain Shaman

To determine the winners, we compare the effectiveness of each company against relative performance within an industry-specific peer group. In the analysis, we divide companies into three groups: winners, finalists and under-performers. This is an high-performing group representing 5% of public companies. Finalists.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

This new partnership comes just months after Mattel sent two Barbie dolls into space as part of a collaboration with the International Space Station National Lab to encourage girls to consider aerospace, engineering and STEM careers. Financial terms of deal were not disclosed. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Supply Chains to Admire – 2016 Results

Supply Chain Insights

To determine the winners, we compare the effectiveness of each company against relative performance within an industry-specific peer group. In the analysis, we divide companies into three groups: winners, finalists and under-performers. This is a high-performing group representing 5% of public companies studied.

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Prescriptive Analytics for Supply Chain Optimization: 6 Powerful Use Cases 

ThroughPut

These analytics techniques serve as essential tools to transform descriptive metrics into actionable insights and informed decisions. Without visibility into this complex process, identifying the areas for improvement and the actual scope for improvement was becoming a growing challenge for this aerospace sensor company.

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Added Boeing Developments Related to Production Quality Challenges

Supply Chain Matters

According to a Boeing communication, workers within the commercial aircraft business unit will now have upwards of 60 percent of their annual incentive bonus score predicated on safety and quality metrics. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.

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