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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. We do so in the lens of supply chain management and manufacturing. Reportedly, 33 failures were recorded by auditors.

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Manufacturing ERP Plays a Key Role for Sustainability

QAD

As an example, look no further than Microsoft’s announcement to be carbon negative by 2030 and their commitment of $1 billion towards a climate innovation fund. Lean Manufacturing is a business model and approach that emphasizes the elimination of non-value added activities while producing quality products on time and with greater efficiency.

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Overcoming The Barriers to Use Channel Data

Supply Chain Shaman

Most companies do not analyze the coefficient of variation (how forecastable the data is), the quality of the demand forecast (Forecast Value-Added) , or the impact of the latency from the dependency on the order signal in the distortion and amplification of the supply signal (bullwhip effect). Imagine Supply Chain 2030.

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Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

A research from Google, Temasek Holdings and Bain & Co showed the region’s online spending could reach $1 trillion by 2030. According to E2open’s latest Supply Chain Innovation Report, the top action that organisations foresee to create a more resilient supply chain is diversifying their supplier base (40%).

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Fiona Lowbridge, VP at ALOM!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Data management technology is today’s supply chain performance differentiator. Supply chain combines all possible dynamics bringing success to clients and their customers. What I do affects the well-being and quality of life for millions of people on a daily basis.

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The Secret of Getting Ahead (Takeaways from Command Alkon ELEVATE 2018 Conference)

Talking Logistics

The answer to the first question is clear when you consider the following sobering statistics about the industry: According to the McKinsey Global Institute, the world will need to spend $57 trillion on infrastructure by 2030 just to keep up with GDP growth. BuildIT is essentially a SCON for the industry.

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The Blueprint for AI in 2021 Supply Chains- Surviving Disruptions in the Post-COVID World

ThroughPut

The post-pandemic era brings with itself a host of uncertainties and supply chain risks, however, it also reinforces the benefits of using Artificial Intelligence (AI in supply chains) and unravels its multifold applications especially during difficult times. This results in a 1.2 % additional GDP growth per year.