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Boeing’s Production Quality Crisis Significantly Escalates

Supply Chain Matters

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. He further added: “ We are in an industry where quality and safety is top priority.” That alone is significant.

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Engine Reliability and Supply Surfaces for Commercial Aircraft Supply Chains

Supply Chain Matters

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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Is A Customer-Centric Strategy the Same as Demand-Driven? Outside-In?

Supply Chain Shaman

Advanced companies are building cross-functional teams to use unstructured data to analyze warranty, quality and service failures. Check out the new Shaman’s Journal. At the conference we will be challenging supply chain leaders to focus on Supply Chain 2030 through a programmatic focus on five themes: Supply Chains to Admire.

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 2.18-2.22

Freight Plus

Amazon promises 50% net-zero carbon shipments by 2030. In 30 years, I’ve never seen anything like this,” said BJ Patterson, chief executive of warehouse operator Pacific Mountain Logistics in San Bernardino, CA, told The Wall Street Journal. Dave Clark, SVP of Worldwide Operations at Amazon, made the pledge in a blog published Monday.

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Jobs Sustainability: Luddites are Alive and Well

Enterra Insights

counties by 2030.” ” Specifically, it concluded, “[A] critical challenge is not necessarily a lack of jobs, but the low quality of many jobs and the resulting lack of viable careers for many people, particularly workers without college degrees. Researchers at McKinsey & Co.

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The Importance of Soft Skills in Hard Times

Enterra Insights

” And she notes, “A study by Deloitte estimates that two-thirds of all jobs by 2030 will depend on soft skills.” According to the WikiJob’s team, a responsible person embraces the following qualities: Trustworthiness; discipline; motivation; conscientiousness; accountability; resilience; and adaptability.

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Stop Food Waste Day 2023

Enterra Insights

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.” The United Nations, US Government, European Parliament, and global business coalitions such as the Consumer Goods Forum, have all set goals to cut food loss and waste in half by 2030.”