Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 24, 2023

In a prior Supply Chain Matters blog commentary published on Monday of this week , we highlighted that commercial aircraft fuselage, structural component, and engine pylon supplier Spirit AeroSystems has reached a tentative agreement in labor contract renewal talks with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM).

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Exiger Perspectives

JULY 14, 2023

[Read the full client alert: China announces export restrictions on two essential metals ] Aside from the making of semiconductors, gallium and germanium are key for various military applications, from night vision goggles to highly advanced communications and sensor equipment in aerospace and space platforms. This includes the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Within the aerospace and commercial aircraft industry, involuntary job losses among highly skilled workers that occurred in 2020 and 2021 are still being felt as the industry attempts to again ramp-up monthly production levels for commercial aircraft or address large scale aircraft engine premature component replacement needs.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In its reporting of the Airbus production increase goal, The Wall Street Journal cited a London based aerospace analyst as declaring: “ It’s no longer a duopoly.” The implication is that Boeing has significant business and competitive challenges to overcome.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Journal report makes reference to a white paper published in 2001 penned by a then Boeing aerospace engineer. Inside Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess ( Paid subscription ), was far reaching in the implications of the latest incident.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 26, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights for our readers an on-stage conversation held between the CEO ’s of Boeing and Qatar Airways at Bloomberg’s Qatar Economic Forum. Boeing CEO David Calhoun shared direct views of the state of this industry’s supply networks.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

This comprehensive 38-page report includes the full listing of predictions along with a lot of information, perspectives and added insights.

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 2, 2024

It demands an in-depth understanding of every stage of the supply chain, from the initial procurement of raw materials to the delivery of the final product. This includes manufacturers in the automotive, electronics, and aerospace fields and service providers within the healthcare and hospitality realms.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 11, 2023

The takeaway is that global sourcing strategy has many dimensions in either achieving access and customer fulfillment capabilities to domestic and regional markets, or in the need to instill added supply chain resiliency. The latter has been a critical lesson from the past three years of global supply chain disruption.

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DynaSys

JANUARY 13, 2021

Of course more prosaic disruptions, such as port closures, supplier problems, or competitive new product events, occur far more frequently. Typically supply chain disruptions are regional or market-centric. And on the supply and production sides, disease flare-ups, imposed shutdowns.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 16, 2022

Let’s also add for our audience that a good portion of inflationary pressures have stemmed from supply chain disruptions and subsequent actions. Industry Supply Chain Implications. Financial market pundits and economists are now becoming more vocal on the likelihood or potential timing of a global wide recession.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 23, 2020

Part 1: The Impact of a State of Emergency on the Supply Chain, Disruption to Businesses, Daily Life, and unnecessary Waste. For example, once my supply of things that I need (i.e. food, toiletries, cleaning supplies) start running out, I go to the store to replenish my weekly/monthly average needs.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 23, 2020

Part 1: The Impact of a State of Emergency on the Supply Chain, Disruption to Businesses, Daily Life, and unnecessary Waste. For example, once my supply of things that I need (i.e. food, toiletries, cleaning supplies) start running out, I go to the store to replenish my weekly/monthly average needs.

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Resilinc

APRIL 1, 2024

Discover the tools procurement pros and resiliency program managers use to take on the most complex supply chains. How many countries does it take to make an iPhone? In a perfect world, there would be no disruptions to this system, and it would always run smoothly. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 4, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides an update on the ongoing production, quality reputation and corporate cultural challenges that surround commercial aircraft producer Boeing.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In this Supply Chain Matters Editorial , Founder and Executive Editor Bob Ferrari focuses on Boeing’s ongoing corporate culture challenges. It should reward production and supply chain workers for their ingenuity and follow through and for contributing to achieving key operational milestones.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of Boeing ’s latest report of 2023 financial performance along with added and growing implications from the latest 737 MAX 9 aircraft door plug blowout incident. Latest Financial Performance Report U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides an additional update on the latest incident involving a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft’s decompression. Fortunately, the aircraft was able to return to its point of departure, Portland, Oregon for an emergency landing.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Supply Chain Matters updates readers on breaking news related to commercial aircraft engine producer Pratt & Whitney’s GTF aircraft engine flaws that are subject to added inspections and repairs.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 9, 2023

Last week’s announced recall of in-service Pratt & Whitney’s Geared Turbofan (GTF) engines is likely to have yet another impact for commercial aircraft industry supply chain efforts to ramp-up monthly production.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 30, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights a further negative drop in the New York Federal Reserve’s Global Supply Chain Pressures Index ( GSPI ). This index compiles 27 different variables to include transportation movement and costs, global PMI sub-indexes reflecting delivery times and order backlog.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our latest news capsule format follow-up relative to the updating of our prior supply chain management published developments we have shared with readers. Our previous edition of this series was published on July 28 th.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Let’s take the example of an Aerospace sensor company. Without visibility into this complex process, identifying the areas for improvement and the actual scope for improvement was becoming a growing challenge for this aerospace sensor company.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 30, 2023

to join us in our journey to make sustainable aerospace a reality and to help us build a better, more diverse and inclusive workplace for all our employees. billion for the GE Aerospace business unit. Thierry Baril, Chief Human Resources & Workplace Officer of Airbus called on those interested: “.to billion to $5.7

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Aerospace and Defense. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. TradeEdge – Demand Chain Management. Who said supply chains are boring? Supply Chain Matters. Supply Excellence. The 21st Century Supply Chain.

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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.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 27, 2022

This week, the company reported its Q1-2022 financial performance which included some direct comments related to ongoing global supply chain disruptions and challenges. Health Care Products. Consumer Products. . The financial headlines included: Total sales declining 0.3 percent on year-over-year basis. Executive Commentary.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 8, 2022

Previously, China established a governmental agency responsible for centrally procuring new commercial for the country’s major airline carriers, with the goal of securing the most competitive deals.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 2, 2023

With an estimated 70 percent of this aerospace manufacturer’s revenues coming from commercial aircraft, the CEO of this business unit will likely be cited as the second most powerful executive. © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 7, 2023

There is a further takeaway from this latest incident and that ids that aerospace industry supply networks have to step up efforts in quality and regulatory enforcement controls. Discovery of faulty, unapproved or bogus parts after the fact is troubling itself.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

Industry and local business media reports indicate that commercial aircraft fuselage, structural component, and engine pylon supplier SpiritAerosystems has reached a tentative agreement in labor contract renewal talks with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM).

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 4, 2023

West reiterated that the aerospace provider expects delivery of between 400 and 450 737 family aircraft in 2023. CFO Brian West indicated the U.S. based aircraft maker has provided Spirit with manufacturing and engineering resources along with a cash advance to address remediation of the component assembly issue.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 19, 2022

based aircraft producer needed to show an industry presence and demonstrate that demand for the troubled 737 MAX aircraft was ongoing as the industry overall rebounds from three plus years of significant disruption.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 18, 2023

Long time Seattle Times aerospace industry reporter Domenic Gates tweeted that it is believed that this problem may date back four years and possibly affect most of the planes built since the original grounding of the aircraft in 2029.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In late October, industry publication Aviation Week reported that Pratt’s inspection program for the Pratt PW1000G engine family was stabilizing.

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RFgen

JUNE 8, 2023

After all, if products are not properly traced, accounted for, and utilized, there are far-reaching effects across the product life cycle, from procurement to delivery. Proper inventory management involves a holistic view of all products with the goal of ensuring a smooth supply chain operation and minimizing costs.

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HICX Solutions

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The Procurement and Supply Chain industries have gone through many changes in the last couple of years, due to both external and internal factors, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain disruptions, adoption of technological advancements, and so on – all in the hopes of making the functions more strategic, efficient and effective.

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