RFgen

AUGUST 14, 2017

We’ll also provide questions and strategies to help contractors improve systems and processes for combatting counterfeit electronic parts in the aerospace and defense supply chain. A fighter jet suffers a critical system failure during flight. The guidance system in a defense battery fails to intercept incoming missiles.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 22, 2024

According to a published report by The New York Times , the FAA’s audit: “ explored how well Boeing’s employees understood the company’s quality control processes.” The reported concern is that Boeing’s current credit rating is just above junk status. We do so in the lens of supply chain management and manufacturing.

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Kanban Logistics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Third-party procurement. If your buyers spend a good percentage of their time negotiating with, and procuring goods from makers of boxes, nuts, bolts, and other consumable parts and materials, that time can be better spent on your core business. Just in time (JIT) delivery.

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RFgen

APRIL 30, 2024

Perpetual inventory management relies on technology to track inventory with timely data and a high degree of accuracy. Or have reliable visibility at all times. By integrating some or all of these technologies (including mobile), the business gains a holistic view of inventory levels, sales patterns, and potential issues in real time.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They were expressed as longer mandatory hours of work, impacts of rising inflation on worker’s household budgets, prior wage concessions in tough economic times and perceptions of corporate greed in salaries and bonuses of business CEO’s.

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SupplyOn

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Gathering more than 1,300 companies from all around the world, Aeromart Toulouse 2018 confirmed its position as the global platform of the aerospace industry. However, business as usual was just one component of the event. Common pitfalls lie mostly in the lack of resources: time, people and budget. Quality, quality, quality!

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Kanban Logistics

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

It’s made up of two powerful words that, when combined, serve to eat up lots of your time. This assembly can take up a lot of time (as well as inventory space and manpower). To save a good chunk of this time – and money – many manufacturers utilize the custom kitting services of third-party logistics (3PL) companies.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 16, 2024

This dashes any hopes by Boeing and impacted airlines for a timely remedy and resolution of the suspected loose bolts holding the door plug. The Journal report makes reference to a white paper published in 2001 penned by a then Boeing aerospace engineer.

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Exiger Perspectives

JULY 14, 2023

Restarting mining of gallium, or retooling and expanding capacity to produce gallium from bauxite, would each take significant time and may pose long-term supply chain challenges. The metals — gallium and germanium — will be subject to unspecified export controls beginning August 1, China announced on July 3. In the U.S.,

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 10, 2022

As readers review these listings, focus on the topics as well as the timing during the year. The Supply Chain Matters blog highlighted reported candid remarks from the CEO of aerospace manufacturer Airbus regarding the challenges of revised production and aircraft delivery plans on the company’s global supply network partners.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

But the trend of Supply Chain’s rise to the C-suite doesn’t just mean the elevation of Supply Chain professionals into the CEO role at companies. As our interviewee and Procurement guru Wael Safwat put it a few months ago , “it’s no longer the organizations that are competing. Why is this? It’s the Supply Chains that are competing.” .

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DynaSys

MARCH 19, 2019

In any area, across domains of activity, from farming to aerospace, cosmetics to mechanics, innovation should be part of the companies’ DNA. These enable the workforce to free up some time to study the industry evolution they work in, to analyse and understand the latest best practices and those key components.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 6, 2013

I define DDVN as: Demand-Driven Value Networks: A network that senses demand with minimal latency to drive a near real-time response to improve demand shaping and demand translation. No longer should the supply chain be thought of as just a cost center to manage. To ensure clarity in this post, let’s start with definitions.

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HICX Solutions

MARCH 19, 2019

It might be tempting to think that the worlds of procurement and reputational risk management are gleefully separate. What would a back-office function like procurement have to do with an organisation’s brand or public-facing exterior? Just what is reputational risk? Why is reputational risk important?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

I have been at it for a long time. I just started working on it as an objective. That is the role of marketing or sales or procurement. ” I just think it needs to get done, and that in most organizations it is not. Most lack the understanding and they are just not incented to build value networks.

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DynaSys

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As months go by, if we do not see a working vaccine coming relatively soon, people may just get tired of following protocols and let their guards down. These are just a few high profile examples. There is competition for resources, though more infrequently and less dramatically as time passes. Regional Pandemic Relapses.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 16, 2022

Financial market pundits and economists are now becoming more vocal on the likelihood or potential timing of a global wide recession. But these are not normal times, given all that is occurred during the last two and one-half years. In this Supply Chain Matters editorial commentary we highlight yesterday’s action by the U.S.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 23, 2020

The times are truly testing, not just on the containment of the virus, but also human behavior to indulge in irrational panic buying. More importantly, I aim to provide recommendations and potential solutions to accelerate the rebound for businesses like yours during these uncertain Coronavirus times.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 23, 2020

The times are truly testing, not just on the containment of the virus, but also human behavior to indulge in irrational panic buying. More importantly, I aim to provide recommendations and potential solutions to accelerate the rebound for businesses like yours during these uncertain Coronavirus times.

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Requis

JUNE 12, 2020

They will have profound implications for manufacturing, energy, aerospace, health care, and even urban planning. But when powered by real-time data input, especially from IoT sensors, they can be as complex as anything in our physical reality. The animated model just makes more sense to the human brain because it mimics reality.

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E2open

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Demand sensing technology has been around for more than 15 years, yet there are still many myths around just what it is, what it does and the prerequisites to use it. More than three-quarters of demand sensing implementations use just use these three internal signals and on average they achieve a 40% reduction in forecast error.

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DynaSys

JANUARY 13, 2021

Large scale chemical plant explosions have caused revenue-impacting delays globally several times in recent years. Yet explosions and fires impact supply in just one or a few industries. Demand is usually not dramatically affected; just the ability to meet it. Robert Drew gives you Takeaways to Future Supply Chain crisis.

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Precoro

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In today's competitive market, where it's not all about cost savings, tracking procurement performance and aligning it with business goals and objectives is a must-have. So how do you measure the effectiveness of procurement operations within your organization? What Are Procurement KPIs, and Why Use Them?

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

Which is why email newsletters just work – delivered to your inbox each day (usually) bringing a limited selection of top stories in condensed form. This is the experts’ selection – but if we had to choose just one, our go-to read is the fast-rising WSJ Daily Logistics Report. Air Cargo World. ACWmagazine.

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Requis

JANUARY 9, 2020

Ideally, digital twins update in real time from automated information inputs, and can be used for process experimentation before changes are tried in the real world. But in order for that to happen, supply chain needs much more visibility than it currently has. In order for that visibility to happen, organizations need data. Digital twins.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Since that time, the scrutiny and viewpoints focused on Boeing by government regulators, aircraft customers, mainstream business media and flyers themselves remains in the headlines. In this Supply Chain Matters Editorial , Founder and Executive Editor Bob Ferrari focuses on Boeing’s ongoing corporate culture challenges.

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ThroughPut

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

For Europe, it is almost time to resume activities from the extended production breaks. Most importantly for ThroughPut, manufacturing and logistics operations in aerospace, automotive, CPG, and energy are about to pick back up until Christmas. Summer is almost over. The population of Mykonos is about to drop by more than 50%.

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SupplyOn

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The Aviation Forum, held in Munich for the first time, provided numerous insights and innovative approaches on how the aerospace industry can meet the upcoming fundamental changes (photo courtesy of IPM) Now Munich. We invented the thing” Prof.

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Kanban Logistics

JULY 23, 2020

Often, third party logistics providers (3PLs) are key operating partners behind these manufacturing logistics solutions, providing the warehouses, trucks, systems and know-how to make this just-in-time (JIT) process happen. Check out this case study on our manufacturing logistics support for an aerospace company.

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NC State SCRC

JULY 11, 2017

Many large fleets have over a million tires on the road at any point in time, and of their replacement tires, the ratio of new to retreaded tires is typically 4.5:1. The maximum number of retreads per tire occur for high quality (Tier 1) casings, which are often retreaded 3 or 4 times. 403 per mile. cents per mile.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 5, 2012

Aerospace and Defense. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. It is the time of the year when you look back at the predications that were made and how they turned out. I am just going to look at a prediction that was made a while back.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 15, 2014

Aerospace and Defense. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. For example, preventive maintenance are either time based or meter based and it appears that it has got nothing to do with equipment dynamics in itself. Contact Us. Infosys Labs.

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Resilinc

APRIL 1, 2024

Discover the tools procurement pros and resiliency program managers use to take on the most complex supply chains. How many countries does it take to make an iPhone? This meant keeping track of suppliers in spreadsheets and physically updating contact information, locations, and more over time. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 2, 2012

Aerospace and Defense. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. One of the biggest time consuming and mundane activities in warehouse management is the pick up of inventory and the appropriate shelving of inventory. Contact Us. Infosys Labs. Industries.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

However, decision making is plagued with challenges, and to make things worse, complex and critical decisions are often made by people with severely inadequate information, time, or experience. Businesses, however, need real-time, relevant, and actionable intelligence to effectively manage increasingly complex supply chain networks.

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Arena Solutions

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Their cartoon, “The Jetsons” was living proof digital transformation was just around the corner. and France investing heavily in developing and procuring advanced UAM systems for commercial operations. The cartoon sitcom featured a futuristic space-age family living in Orbit City. What’s propelling the UAM market? billion by 2030.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Background In late January, Supply Chain Matters highlighted for our readers plans among the major two players in the commercial aircraft industry sector, Airbus and Boeing , to reinitiate ramp-up of monthly production levels now that global airlines have just about resumed pre-pandemic flight operations.

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