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Boeing’s Production Quality Crisis Significantly Escalates

Supply Chain Matters

The center fuselage and other structural components for the wide body Airbus 350 are produced at Spirit’s facilities in North Carolina and in Prestwick, Scotland. Supply contracts involve the wing structures for the Airbus A220 aircraft family that are produced in a facility in Belfast, Ireland.

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Duke Energy CEO Talks About Leadership

Supply Chain View from the Field

For the average customer in North Carolina, he or she pays about $3 a day for electricity. This price is 40% below the price on the West Coast, and 70% below the price in Europe. One of the biggest challenges in the developing world is the lack of reliable energy platforms, and we often take this for granted.

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Procurement will play a key role in monitoring supply base conditions.

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Dealing with Supply Chain Uncertainty After Covid: Insights from the Experts

NC State SCRC

It is unlikely, for instance, that their oil and gas supply chain will ever return to its former self, and that Europe will ever rely on them for these resources again. Finally, General Jim Trogdon, the former Secretary of Transportation in North Carolina, provided some interesting insights into transportations.

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Navigating the Future in an Uncertain Political and Regulatory Environment

NC State SCRC

The Supply Chain Resource Cooperative held its bi-annual Industry Partner Meeting in the Talley Student Center at North Carolina State University this past week. It is a modern version of the old Silk Road, which sought to maximize trade with Europe and the countries between them.