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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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A Conversation with Don Teng

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

From that same IQ Research report, the demand for warehouse automation equipment is expected to grow with a CAGR% of >14% for the next 5 years with even higher growth in sub-countries in the APAC region in both developed and emerging countries. For example, forklift drivers, pickers, packers, quality inspectors and so forth, etc.

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The March of the Lemmings.

Supply Chain Shaman

In this blog post, I share quantitative research, mixed with stories, of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). The first report was published when I working at AMR Research (now Gartner) in 2004. The Research. . Top line results of recent research on S&OP processes? The Preamble. Effective S&OP takes work.

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S&OP: Can You Make Decisions at the Speed of Business?

Supply Chain Shaman

Eerily the case studies sound the same as the ones heard when I completed S&OP research in 2004. As a result, after three months of research, writing the sequel on S&OP technologies is a challenge. As a researcher, I validate observations through quantitative research. The question central to the research?

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Overcoming The Barriers to Use Channel Data

Supply Chain Shaman

A requirement to apply as an analyst position for AMR Research was to write an opinion piece and defend the article in an interview. The focus of the conference is on Supply Chain 2030. Imagine Supply Chain 2030. I remember the evening well. My assigned topic was demand visibility.

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Announcing the Supply Chains to Admire for 2019

Supply Chain Shaman

In the research, I’m trying to understand the impact of choices—technology, process innovation, and leadership– on balance sheet performance. The research is independent and data-driven. For the past six years, I have analyzed public reporting and triangulated the results to the quantitative research. What have I found?

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Is Vertical Farming Falling Flat?

Enterra Insights

Researchers at Colorado State University believe that urban agriculture has a future on building rooftops. Journalist Matt Simon reports that, on the top of one the campus’ buildings, CSU researchers have created “a sprawling, sensor-laden outdoor laboratory overseen by horticulturalist Jennifer Bousselot.”