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20 Years of Outsourcing Come Back to Haunt Boeing

Logistics Viewpoints

Alaska Airlines Door Blows Out in Flight For 20 years, Boeing has engaged in collaborative product development with a significant number of suppliers. The outsourced R&D, in turn, supported outsourced manufacturing with over 50 key suppliers. Spirit AeroSystems manufactures the fuselages of the 737 Max jets.

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Boeing’s Newest Production and Quality Challenge

Supply Chain Matters

Latest Incident On Friday of last week, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft flying at 16,000 feet experienced a main cabin decompression as a result of a rear exit fuselage door plug blowing out. based carriers Alaska Airlines and United Airlines. News of this incident prompted the U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

From January 28 to February 4, a Chinese-operated high-altitude balloon was seen in North American airspace, including Alaska, western Canada, and the contiguous United States. 9, according to Xeneta, a Norway-based transportation data firm, reflecting lower freight demand as retailers cut orders and consumer spending continues to decline.

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The Importance of Transparency in Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

In the information age, it’s difficult to hide things you would prefer to remain undiscovered. The article cites Dr. Darren Prokop, of the University of Anchorage Alaska, who explains supply chain visibility involves seeing “a particular activity with access to information at selected nodes.” ”[3].

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What is Supply Chain Compliance and Why is it Important?

AB&R

In addition, several agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) require unique device identifiers (UDI) usually in the form of barcodes to contain information such as manufactured date and lot number to provide traceability. Use the form below to send us your information! Fields marked with a * are required.

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Matrix Commerce is Coming Will You Be Ready?

Supply Chain Network

When it comes to how many products to manufacture and where to make and deploy them of course the earliest and more accurate picture you have of demand the better decisions can be made. Also, in the past it was brands and retailers who determined how and where you would buy their products and what price they would be sold for.

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Podcast: Roberto Reichard on Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Capital Projects

Requis

I joined their global projects group and went to Alaska to lead a project. This is how I learned about the concept of “retained carbon”, or embodied carbon, which is essentially the carbon that is used in the extraction and manufacture of materials used in a project. How is this information presented?