Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As a result of the Alaska Airlines cabin blowout incident, the FAA has placed a current restriction on Boeing 737 MAX monthly production levels, pending ongoing audits of Boeing internal and major supplier production and quality control processes. The implication is that Boeing has significant business and competitive challenges to overcome.

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USC Consulting Group

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Of course, outages are hardly isolated to the nation’s most-populated state. These included Alaska (138 minutes), the state with the lowest population density, Arizona (138 minutes), Wyoming (153 minutes), Vermont (172 minutes), and Montana (212 minutes). Why are they occurring on a more regular basis?

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GTG Technology Group

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In the Maersk attack, ships off the coast of Anchorage, Alaska were unable to deliver necessary goods like milk and groceries. Even more unsettling is the fact most ships rely on GPS for navigation, and failure causes captains to lose critical course information, communications ability and computer links. Sources: [link].

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Supply Chain Network

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

Matrix Commerce describes the complex construct integrating marketing, sales, sourcing, pricing, profitability, service levels, delivery and consumer perceptions. This of course is a crapshoot and anything but an exact science, and for those seeking potential solutions I will share some of the suggestions I am working on.

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GTG Technology Group

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

However, truck drivers often travel through many states during the course of their work, and many of the drivers testing positive for marijuana are consuming it without realizing it. Recreational marijuana is legal in Alaska, California, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and the District of Columbia. Sources: [link].

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Resilinc

AUGUST 2, 2022

Contracts are important, of course. But now, you can’t drive a truck or a car or take a train from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. It could be a single source you depend on, a single location, or a single country. There’s no viable transportation infrastructure on much of the so-called Pan American Highway.

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