Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 12, 2024

As highlighted in our original commentary , an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft flying at 16,000 feet experienced a main cabin decompression as a result of a rear exit fuselage door plug blowing out. That has implications for Alaska, United and Copa airlines, the noted operators of this MAX variant.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Background In early January, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft flying at 16,000 feet experienced a main cabin decompression as a result of a rear exit fuselage door plug blowing out. They are tenets which have been incorporated not only in automotive industry but other discrete manufacturing settings.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 25, 2024

Since January’s incident involving an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX aircraft experiencing cabin de-pressurization because of a rear cockpit door blowout the crisis surrounding Boeing with airline customers, flyers, and major suppliers has only deepened.

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USC Consulting Group

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Because the vast majority of small-business owners and major corporations require power to provide, manufacture, or deliver products and services, the grid’s failings are forcing companies to evaluate their current processes and develop workarounds so service interruptions are minimized. Why are they occurring on a more regular basis?

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Requis

MARCH 23, 2021

I joined their global projects group and went to Alaska to lead a project. The pressure to be more sustainable also comes from outside sources like governments, banks and customers. Sustainability should impact procurement choices, such as favoring lower embodied carbon products over higher embodied carbon products.

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Supply Chain Network

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

Matrix Commerce describes the complex construct integrating marketing, sales, sourcing, pricing, profitability, service levels, delivery and consumer perceptions. Once one accepts the need, the question then becomes how do you track the ‘actual’ and not assumed carbon footprint of a specific individual product from manufacture to consumption?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 11, 2021

In an interview with Supply Chain Brain, Intel highlights its new program to eliminate waste from its manufacturing process and prevent all used and returned materials from ending up in landfill. For one large supermarket chain, the idea of jumping on the buy and source locally trend makes too much sense.

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Unleashed

JULY 29, 2021

Excise duty is commonly charged to the manufacturers of these products, with laws also requiring the areas where the products are made to have special licences. Excise duty is payable by the manufacturers of the product. Manufacturing the product can mean making it oneself, or hiring staff to make it on behalf of the business.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 26, 2024

Background As highlighted in our original commentary , in early January, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft flying at 16,000 feet experienced a main cabin decompression as a result of a rear exit fuselage door plug blowing out. Alaska itself is indicating the need for a $150 million added charge related to the disruption.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 28, 2014

Industrial Manufacturing. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. There was an incident where Alaska Airlines (flight 261) flying from Mexico to Seattle airport plunged into the Pacific Ocean. Procurement Blog. Automotive.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2021

All the while, Mike would purchase old fixer-upper homes and remarket them – long before it was the chic thing to do! Cathy was born into a fishing family in Alaska. She spent her childhood and much of her professional life managing people, originally on processing ships in the Bering Sea, then later in manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 11, 2024

After the incident of a rear cabin door blowout of an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 8 aircraft that occurred in January, the U.S. This Q1 performance compared to 157 aircraft delivered in Q4-2023 and 113 aircraft delivered in the year-earlier period.

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Resilinc

AUGUST 2, 2022

We had the purchasing power to accomplish that. Wilensky: Okay, but for OEMs with lower annual spend, what kinds of contract terms can induce a supplier to stand up a new manufacturing facility in a country that’s closer to the domestic markets or their major contract manufacturers?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 13, 2023

But one source mentioned the unlucky nature of the number “13” is a Norse myth about 12 gods having a dinner party in Valhalla. It has been an anemic peak season for ocean freight haulers as container shipping rates have plunged from pandemic highs and Americans and Europeans continue to pull back on purchases of consumer goods.

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