Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

Aerospace manufacturers have an average of 200 tier-one suppliers and 12,000 across all tiers. Matt has led high-impact teams that implemented logistics strategies and systems at P&G, Nestle, Kraft, Anheuser-Busch Inbev, Tyco, Argos and Nokia across North America, Western Europe and Latin America.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Manufacturing Employment Impacts Across Europe and the United Kingdom , a significant period of production contraction has led to added manufacturing job losses. and Europe for programs to train workers in specialized technical dimensions of such production.

Negotiating Skills 59

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o9 Solutions

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Novelis operates an integrated global network of technically advanced rolling and recycling facilities to deliver innovative, low-carbon products to some of the largest and best-known automotive, beverage can, aerospace, architecture, and consumer electronics brands in the world.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In October of 2021, we highlighted for readers indications from the CEO of Airbus that the subsequent 12 to 18 months will be the most difficult part of what this aircraft manufacturer would have to achieve to really recover from the Covid 19 impacts on airline travel and on the aerospace industry as whole. Added Perspectives.

Industrial 59

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Resilinc

MARCH 12, 2024

Now, ships are avoiding Egypt’s Suez Canal, the shortest maritime route from Europe to Asia and one of the world’s most important waterways, which accounts for about 12% of the world’s shipping traffic. This is causing longer journeys, which have added costs, increased oil prices, and increased insurance premiums.

Russia 101

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QAD

APRIL 18, 2024

Renault CEO Luca de Meo has proposed an “Airbus of autos” approach, suggesting a collaborative effort akin to the aerospace consortium to share the burdensome costs of developing affordable BEVs. Europe, while ahead of the U.S. In response, European carmakers are exploring various strategies to mitigate these challenges.

Material Savings 89

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 29, 2022

This new partnership comes just months after Mattel sent two Barbie dolls into space as part of a collaboration with the International Space Station National Lab to encourage girls to consider aerospace, engineering and STEM careers. Europe agrees to cut natural-gas consumption as Russia crimps supplies.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 31, 2022

In looking at re/nearshoring trends and sentiments for both the United States and Europe, here’s what we found: Re/nearshoring has been particularly disappointing in Europe. In Europe, FDI in manufacturing declined by 20% in 2020, according to EY. Firms can indeed reap major benefits by re/nearshoring parts of a supply chain.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 62

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Resilinc

JULY 18, 2023

The main industries that use AFFF products include defense, petrochemical, and aerospace. According to Bloomberg Law , the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) proposed a PFAS restriction on February 7, 2023, as part of a plan to ban PFAS in Europe in 2025. AFFF, or Aqueous film forming foam, is used to control petroleum-based fires.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Yet as Supply Chain Matters has noted in our most recent industry specific supply chain perspectives , concerns for the occurrence and overall length of economic recession occurring in both Europe and the U.S. and potentially Europe.

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Resilinc

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Ships are avoiding Egypt’s Suez Canal, the shortest maritime route from Europe to Asia and one of the world’s most important waterways, which accounts for about 12% of the world’s shipping traffic. Take for instance, Europe, which is entering its peak demand season for oil and gas. Suspended shipments through the Red Sea (Dec 19).

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

The other industry specific solution is Oracle’s solution for aerospace & defense. In particular, there’s a number of “supply chain and third-party transparency regulatory programs that are being implemented in Europe and other countries around the world.” My reality is just different from yours.”

Global 176

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Stord

MARCH 3, 2019

Anticipating possible regulatory hold ups or added expenses to its supply chain after the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, the aerospace giant is moving spare parts to final destinations earlier than normal.

Warehousing 60

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QAD

MARCH 26, 2024

Renault CEO Luca de Meo has proposed an “Airbus of autos” approach, suggesting a collaborative effort akin to the aerospace consortium to share the burdensome costs of developing affordable BEVs. Europe, while ahead of the U.S. In response, European carmakers are exploring various strategies to mitigate these challenges.

Material Savings 52

Material Savings Cost Reduction Strategies Resource Reduction Price Reduction 52

ivalua

APRIL 20, 2023

Hutchinson is a global leader in the design, manufacture, and sale of smart mobility solutions for a variety of markets including automotive, aerospace, defense, rail and industries. This project expansion will see the number of eProcurement users double from 4,000 across Europe to 8,000 globally.

Procurement Solutions 130

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Resilinc

MAY 16, 2023

Automotive, aerospace, and healthcare industries—all of these industries use parts that contain polysilicon.” In Europe, PFOS (a type of PFAS) has been restricted in the EU for over ten years. Learn more about the impacts of UFLPA in Resilinc’s blog: Which Industries Have Been Impacted by UFLPA?

Chile 62

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In Europe, the Green Deal Industrial Plan will require all new cars sold in the EU to be zero-emission starting in 2035. High-temperature alloys, created primarily using cobalt, are essential for advanced technologies like semiconductor fabrication, electric vehicle batteries, and aerospace products.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 23, 2021

Have a look at one of our customers (Joby Aviation) using this format to print Aerospace parts. The DELMIA CoE Europe team is working with the 3D EXPERIENCE Edu organization to develop learning content to meet all DS audiences expectations and needs and support them in the 3D EXPERIENCE platform adoption. Read more on the comm u nity.

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SupplyOn

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In this research, we surveyed 788 professionals from Europe, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region on the status of electronic invoicing in their companies, its impact on financial indicators (KPIs) and related processes. This has considerable consequences for companies, locking up resources, time and money.

Electronics 40

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Elementum

JULY 15, 2016

President François Hollande said Europe faces "immense danger" and has called for a "profound change" in the European Union. France extended its State of Emergency for three months following the terror attack in the city of Nice at Bastille Day celebration, the country’s most important national holiday, on Thursday evening, July 15.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 12, 2023

Proceeds from this latest equity infusion will reportedly be utilized to expand this tech provider’s growth across North America , Europe and Asia along with expanded industries. Named customers include Danaher , Keysight Technologies , and Stellantis.

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AIMMS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

I have a Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology but I’ve spend most of my career in operations. I worked at ING for a short period, then moved to Philips and subsequently I became the Supply Chain Planning Director for Office Depot in Europe.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2023

On a regional basis, Europe reportedly remained a principal drag on global factory output, along with contracting output in Japan and the United Kingdom. Growth was reportedly fueled from demands in medicine, high tech, auto, railway, shipping and aerospace equipment markets. While the production sub-index registered 50.7,

Procurement Analytics 59

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DELMIA Quintiq

JUNE 5, 2023

The fact that 17 of the 20 most traveled routes in Europe have distances that do not exceed 700 kilometers, make them ideal for fully shifting to rail. Further electrification and decarbonization of power supplies can make rail an even more sustainable form of a mobility solution.

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AIMMS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

I have a Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology but I’ve spend most of my career in operations. I worked at ING for a short period, then moved to Philips and subsequently I became the Supply Chain Planning Director for Office Depot in Europe.

Optimal Sourcing 120

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 11, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights reports indicating that Europe based Airbus will double China based aircraft final assembly output by 2024. The Announcement Commercial aircraft designer and manufacturer Airbus announced plans t o double the production of the company’s final assembly production capabilities within China.

China 52

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Thoma Bravo has other noted investments in supply chain tech providers, including end-to-end transportation and logistics provider project 44 and aerospace industry Cloud platform provider Exostar. Reportedly, the tech provider has generated profitable growth over the prior 15 years.

Supply Chain Design Software 52

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This facility, which will represent VW’s first battery production facility outside of Europe , is to be located in the city of St. Reports had indicated that that the government of Canada agreed to subsidies of upwards of C$13 billion over a ten year period in order to land this investment.

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The centre receives products directly from suppliers and distributes them across Europe within a day. What are the types of companies and industries that benefit from cross docking? Inside the facility, huge robotic operators work alongside humans to maximise the facility’s efficiency.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

Aerospace Industry is characterized by high material costs (about 65-80%). For fast moving products, they use the production facilities in Europe. Tesco is one of the prominent retail stores in Europe. The reason is that they would like to create the worldwide brand awareness. Zara is very famous for its time based strategy.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 7, 2018

Europe and Japan. Here are some of the leading candidates: The airframe : Boeing pushed outsourcing to an extreme on the 787 Dreamliner, with 65 percent of the airframe farmed out to a medley of suppliers in the U.S., The result: years of production snafus and delays. With the forthcoming 777x, it brought the wings back in-house.

Japan 40

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 16, 2023

Concerns for economic recession occurring in both Europe and the U.S. Reportedly more than previously completed 250 MAX’s are still in storage requiring added rework while modification and rework needs for the wide aisle 787 have been taking four to five months per aircraft with upwards of 100 aircraft yet to be accomplished.

Manufacturing Procurement 52

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Kanban Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2023

Mr. Oran also said that the US market is feeling this moderation of labor costs “two to three quarters” ahead of Europe. Oran said that labor costs are decelerating as a percent of overall costs, and that the warehouse labor market is not as tight as it has been in the last couple of years.

Warehousing 52

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

So whether it is Viet Nam or India or Mexico, the cost differences in labor are going to narrow between high cost countries—United States, Europe—and low cost countries—Viet Nam, India, China, or Mexico. In aerospace, for instance, Raytheon and General Dynamics have worked through this issue.

SCM 65

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 16, 2022

In some circles such as Europe for one, the undertones of stagflation , namely persistent high inflation combined with high unemployment and stagnant demand in an economy are being assessed. But these are not normal times, given all that is occurred during the last two and one-half years.

Material Savings 52

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Supply Chain Network

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The acquired operations serve blue chip customers in verticals such as high tech, healthcare and retail, complementing XPO’s expertise in aerospace, retail, telecom, agriculture, chemicals and food and beverage. • XPO and Con-way both have e-fulfillment contract logistics platforms in North America and Europe.

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ThroughPut

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

For Europe, it is almost time to resume activities from the extended production breaks. Most importantly for ThroughPut, manufacturing and logistics operations in aerospace, automotive, CPG, and energy are about to pick back up until Christmas. Summer is almost over. The population of Mykonos is about to drop by more than 50%.

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