Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 22, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides a further update on the ongoing production quality, corporate reputation and other challenges that collectively surround commercial aircraft producer Boeing. We do so in the lens of supply chain management and manufacturing. Reportedly, 33 failures were recorded by auditors.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 9, 2023

Since its introduction in 2016, the innovative Pratt GTF has been dogged by a series of reliability and manufacturing quality issues. According to reporting from The Wall Street Journal last week, more than 100 Pratt powered jets have been grounded “ by durability issues or spare parts shortages that have dragged on for years.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. Advanced companies are building cross-functional teams to use unstructured data to analyze warranty, quality and service failures.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Manufacturers can gather valuable granular data such as the time an item spent in storage, at what temperature, how long it took to sell, the length of time between purchase and fulfillment and how long it spent in transport. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, AI’s potential contribution to the global economy by 2030 is USD15.7

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Resilinc

JANUARY 19, 2022

Its reputation for quality? While other car makers were shutting down factories because of the shortages, Toyota was nearly unaffected,” reported the Wall Street Journal in July 2021. Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany is Volkswagen’s HQ and site of a massive manufacturing complex.). Was it Toyota’s marketing? While Toyota’s U.S.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 25, 2023

And the average American family spends nearly $1900 a year on food they don’t eat, per one paper in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.” ”[3] He continues, “No matter the data source (e.g., Around 10% — or 13.5 million — of U.S. UN’s FAO, U.S. Inspire others to waste less, and repurpose more.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In the specific case of the Airbus A320 neo narrow aisle family , backlogs now extend to the year 2030. Both aircraft manufacturers continue to address challenges related to availability of certain key components or assemblies that have exhibited either quality and reliability issues related to component production and/or performance levels.

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