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The Dangers of Counterfeit Parts in the Aerospace and Defense Industry Supply Chain

RFgen

The aerospace and defense industry needs a reliable supply chain. An RFgen white paper describes counterfeit parts as equipment, usually electronic, sold for fabrication and assembly that do not match the agreed upon description of materials. A supplier tried to sell government contractors counterfeit submarine parts.

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The Dangers of Counterfeit Parts in the Aerospace and Defense Industry Supply Chain

RFgen

The aerospace and defense industry needs a reliable supply chain. An RFgen white paper describes counterfeit parts as equipment, usually electronic, sold for fabrication and assembly that do not match the agreed upon description of materials. A supplier tried to sell government contractors counterfeit submarine parts.

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Boeing 737 MAX Door Plug Incident- Expanding Implications

Supply Chain Matters

The Journal report makes reference to a white paper published in 2001 penned by a then Boeing aerospace engineer. This paper: “ warned colleagues of the risks of the subcontracting strategy, especially if Boeing outsourced too much work and didn’t provide sufficient on-site quality and technical support to its suppliers.”

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Five Technology Patents that Changed the Supply Chain

Freightos

Shorter product lifecycles, fluid sourcing (a’la Aliababa ) and more transparency means agile supply chains that change often. Download the white paper! Check out our data on how shippers and forwarders are moving towards online freight sales in our free white paper about What Shippers Want!

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3 Prerequisites to a Modern Demand-Driven Supply Chain

synchrono

For example, we helped Orbital ATK, an aerospace manufacturer of custom composite parts, connect over 100 individual data sources to collect data from more than 61,000 tags. Related resource: White paper: E2E Supply Chain Visibility Technology is Here.

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Does Your Company Have the ‘Right Stuff’ to Embrace Advanced Analytics?

Logility

I partially achieved that dream by becoming an Aerospace Test Engineer and working at Edwards Air Force Base where many of the early test flights by Chuck Yeager, Scott Crossfield, and other’s took place. Are your current supply chain systems sufficient to leverage new data sources and enable advanced analytics?

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How can Reputational Risk Originate in Your Supply Chain?

HICX Solutions

You only have to look at the following statistics to see how much importance business leaders place on reputation risk: “Damage to reputation/brand” came at the top of the list of the top 10 risks in Aon’s 2017 Global Risk Management Survey ( Source ). Just what is reputational risk? appeared first on HICX Solutions.