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20 Years of Outsourcing Come Back to Haunt Boeing

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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. The outsourced R&D, in turn, supported outsourced manufacturing with over 50 key suppliers.

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Boeing’s Corporate Culture Fix is a Systemic Challenge

Supply Chain Matters

Background In early January, 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. Fortunately, the aircraft was able to return to its point of departure, Portland, Oregon for an emergency landing.

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Diversity of Supply Article – US centric

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million people are employed by 909,000 of these minority owned businesses (Source: www.mbda.gov). Source unknown). Studies and real-world results have proven that a diverse supply chain provides a number of benefits: Agility of the suppliers. Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs) and Indian Tribes that are not small businesses.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 5 – 11)

Logistics Viewpoints

Late last Friday, the US Air Force launched a new rocket cargo program with the Space Force to study the use of commercial spacecraft to ship supplies around the world, and they may look to NASA’s lunar lander program for ideas. If the project, called Rocket Cargo, goes as planned, it would take advantage of this fast-growing market.

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Minority Business Enterprises – Diversity of Supply Article

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million people are employed by 909,000 of these minority owned businesses (Source: www.mbda.gov). Source unknown). Studies and real-world results have proven that a diverse supply chain provides a number of benefits: Agility of the suppliers. Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs) and Indian Tribes that are not small businesses.

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Supply Chain Management:Lubrication Management - An Integral.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Case Studies. |. There was an incident where Alaska Airlines (flight 261) flying from Mexico to Seattle airport plunged into the Pacific Ocean. Sourcing,Procurement,Contract & Spend Management (38).