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Securing aerospace and defense-critical supply chains

Resilinc

There are few industries where security requirements are as rigorous and intensive as in aerospace and defense. Both reports underscore the importance of training and develop a domestic workforce capable of staffing aerospace and defense industries.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

It also helps with training and monitoring delivery drivers in safety and performance, managing assets and resources, and analyzing the efficiency of logistics operations. Last year’s negotiations took place as dozens of container ships were backed up off the coast of California waiting to unload cargo. Retailers in the U.S.

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

Supply Chain Shaman

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. The impact varies by supply chain sector and value chain. The cycle is just beginning.

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. Companies that tightly tether to enterprise transactional data will never buy the right stuff.

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Prediction- Added Labor Activism Among Industry Supply Chains

Supply Chain Matters

Such activism was demonstrated in labor contract negotiations, more aggressive tactics on the part of labor unions, and in actual strike actions. and Europe for programs to train workers in specialized technical dimensions of such production. automakers Ford Motor , General Motors and Stellantis.

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How to Become DFARS Compliant and Avoid Counterfeit Parts in the Aerospace and Defense Supply Chain

RFgen

We’ll also provide questions and strategies to help contractors improve systems and processes for combatting counterfeit electronic parts in the aerospace and defense supply chain. This practice, combined with buying back excess inventory from customers, has introduced counterfeits into the inventories of authorized distributors.”

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Summary of Development and Manufacture Contracts in the Aerospace and Defense Industries

NC State SCRC

Our third contract research paper is by James Wilkinson, focusing on aerospace contracts which typically entail a great deal of risk (as illustrated by the Boeing 737 MAX incident…). The type of contract of interest in this report is for Development and Manufacture contracts in the Aerospace and Defense industries. Description.