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Boeing’s Potential Sourcing Reversal- Financial or Operational?

Supply Chain Matters

Senior Leadership Changes As noted in an attached comment to our prior update, Vice President and General Manager Ed Clarke , an 18-year veteran leading the 737 program including leadership of production operations in Renton, Washington , is stepping down immediately. The post Boeing’s Potential Sourcing Reversal- Financial or Operational?

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

Supply Chain Shaman

We have heard that there is a focus on near-shoring, reshoring, and local manufacturing. Building a fab (manufacturing site) takes two-to-four years and requires the availability of water and trained labor. Registrations are pouring in for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 6th-8th in Washington, DC.

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Added Boeing Developments Related to Production Quality Challenges

Supply Chain Matters

The development, initially reported by The Wall Street Journal citing informed sources, involves the interviewing of passengers and crew members who were on-board the aircraft at the time of the incident. Paid subscription). This report accounts for the notions of unconforming quality repair needs that are termed traveled work.

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-Up- August 17 2022

Supply Chain Matters

Added Manufacturing Disruption in China. Last week after a series of manufacturing and product design flaws impacted the deliveries of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner wide-body aircraft since 2020, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cleared the way to resume airline deliveries of previously ordered aircraft.

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Report That Boeing to Slash Finance Management, HR and Other Staff Jobs

Supply Chain Matters

A published business broadcasting network CNBC report indicated that the commercial aircraft manufacturer had plans to operate three production lines at the Renton, Washington production facility in addition to the planned fourth line. This report is quite detailed and worthy of a read. Thus, Boeing ’s actions should not be unexpected.

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U.S. Defense Supply Chain 'Alarmingly' Reliant on China, Other Rivals

Material Handling & Logistics

military properly defend our nation if it can’t source what it needs from domestic sources — and instead must depend on potential adversaries for those materials? The origin of many of these weaknesses is the fact that our leaders have neglected our vital manufacturing sector for too long. How can the U.S.

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ThroughPut Inc. Appoints the former Vice-Chairman of Bank of America and Distinguished Business Finance Expert, Luke Helms, to its Advisory Board

ThroughPut

ThroughPut’s team is backed by some of the best domain experts from Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Artificial Intelligence and Finance, who have put that knowledge to work in over a dozen successful startups.