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Airbus Weighs In on Potential Sprit AeroSystems Takeover

Supply Chain Matters

Reportedly, supply contracts involve the wing structures for the Airbus A220 aircraft family that are produced in a facility in Belfast, Ireland. As Supply Chain Matters highlighted in our last update on the ongoing production quality crisis that has now surrounded Boeing , if the U.S.

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Boeing’s Potential Sourcing Reversal- Financial or Operational?

Supply Chain Matters

Further reported is that Spirit is separately exploring the divesting of aircraft structures production located in Ireland, specifically for supporting aircraft producer Airbus.

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Q&A with Sidney Johnson: Veteran Supply Chain Practitioner and Resilinc Advisory Board Member

Resilinc

Sidney has over three decades of global direct and indirect procurement and supplier management experience. In those roles, we closely aligned with 3,000 total suppliers globally, constituting about 6,500 individual manufacturing locations. We were also in Europe, North Africa, and Asia. And who is going to have to wait?

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GrandVision: “We are changing completely as we become demand driven”

Supply Chain Movement

In the last three years we’ve developed our strategy, centralised procurement, purchasing and manufacturing aligned our portfolios across all categories globally and developed our exclusive brands portfolio. My role includes purchasing, product development, product management, category management, supply chain and manufacturing.

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Inventory management. Purchasing and supplier management. Production/manufacturing. Later in this article we’ll look at some examples of functional and cross functional KPIs. Broadly speaking though, the following areas are those where KPIs will be necessary: Order capture. Warehousing. Transportation.

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How Europe is Coping with Supply Chain Disruption

Jaggaer

She predicted that shoppers would see more restricted ranges on supermarket shelves “to allow more throughput from suppliers and manufacturers of food”. The broader issue is that border controls and travel bans limit the ability of supply managers to identify and qualify new suppliers.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Derek Panchyshyn!

Supply Chain Game Changer

In my case I graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree in 1990 and started my career with IBM Manufacturing in Toronto, doing test engineering. There is so much to learn in many functions of supply chain, whether it is IT tools, planning and buying, commodities, global supplier management, logistics, warehousing.