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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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Breaking News- Major Senior Leadership Change for Boeing

Supply Chain Matters

Since January’s incident involving an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX aircraft experiencing cabin de-pressurization because of a rear cockpit door blowout the crisis surrounding Boeing with airline customers, flyers, and major suppliers has only deepened.

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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. The companies want the solution to work with the products exactly as they’re currently manufactured, which means handling a wide range of resins and shapes.

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The Importance of Transparency in Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

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.” Transparency, on the other hand, involves moral and ethical dimensions of activities associated with sourcing and manufacturing.

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What are America’s Most Inventive Cities?

QAD

From Nikola Tesla to Bill Gates to Elon Musk and beyond, the modern world has been shaped by the innovations produced by some of the most inventive minds humanity has ever seen. . Given the extent to which decades of invention have shaped QAD and our customers, let’s take a deep dive on invention and innovation. Regional Innovation.

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Contrasting Airbus and Boeing Q1-2024 Aircraft Delivery Performance

Supply Chain Matters

After the incident of a rear cabin door blowout of an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 8 aircraft that occurred in January, the U.S. As we have further stated: Boeing needs to rebuild itself to again be a vibrant industry competitor, aircraft designer and contributor to innovation.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 7 – 13)

Logistics Viewpoints

Driverless trucks will help Maersk improve on-time performance, said Erez Agmoni, Maersk’s global head of innovation for logistics & services. Kodiak, Aurora Innovation Inc. Seattle-based Alaska Airlines said it would work with Santa Monica, Calif. Seattle-based Alaska Airlines said it would work with Santa Monica, Calif.-based