Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Alaska Airlines Door Blows Out in Flight For 20 years, Boeing has engaged in collaborative product development with a significant number of suppliers. Boeing is now a case study in how not to outsource a supply chain. Advanced software is not a magic wand. Quality issues have recently bedeviled Boeing.

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Exiger Perspectives

JULY 14, 2023

The New Trade Controls Will Likely Prompt Companies to Identify Alternative Sourcing Methods China’s move to restrict exports of two metals used in chipmaking and other goods poses a new threat to global supply chains, and makers of consumer electronics, solar cells, and semiconductors could see disruptions soon.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides an additional update on the incident involving an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft’s decompression. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of Boeing ’s latest report of 2023 financial performance along with added and growing implications from the latest 737 MAX 9 aircraft door plug blowout incident. Such urgency is not lost for this industry, its customer base and for its global-wide supply chain networks.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Supply Chain Matters highlights the announcement from Airbus setting aggressive aircraft production and delivery targets for 2024. Added Perspectives Ten plus years of order backlog spans new product development, not to mention added technological cycles. All rights reserved.

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Claritum

AUGUST 23, 2019

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Why is diversity of supply important. Strategic approach to supply diversity. Indirect spend and supply diversity. million people are employed by 909,000 of these minority owned businesses (Source: www.mbda.gov). Source unknown). 2 Why is diversity of supply important?

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Claritum

AUGUST 23, 2019

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Why is diversity of supply important. Strategic approach to supply diversity. Indirect spend and supply diversity. million people are employed by 909,000 of these minority owned businesses (Source: www.mbda.gov). Source unknown). 2 Why is diversity of supply important?

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