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How Europe is Coping with Supply Chain Disruption

Jaggaer

This is perhaps an extreme example, but it highlights how COVID-19 is causing severe disruptions to supply chains. 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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Brexit: Supply Chain Risk or Opportunity?

Logility

Does Brexit represent a supply chain risk to be mitigated, or a supply chain opportunity to be exploited? No doubt companies whose supply chains flow through the UK may be affected, but fortunately and, unlike most supply chain disruptions, we have the better part of two years to plan for this change.

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Win-Win Value Chain Scenarios Require Collaboration

Enterra Insights

Mark Adams, regional sales director for UK and Ireland at Cohesity, insists, “One thing is certain: data is — and will continue to be — the key to digital business. .” Bowen and Vitasek add, “Creating an end-to-end collaboration culture is never easy, and it takes considerable time and resources.” Reduce digital latency.

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Boeing’s Production Quality Crisis Significantly Escalates

Supply Chain Matters

Supply contracts involve the wing structures for the Airbus A220 aircraft family that are produced in a facility in Belfast, Ireland. The Reuters report indicates that Boeing would possibly have to buy out these Airbus supply contracts since neither manufacturer would want a direct supply relationship with the other.

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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. Boeing spun out this supplier, which was once a part of this plane maker’s internal production in 2005 in a major strategic sourcing move.

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Brexit and the Global Distribution Landscape

Veridian Solutions

According to the Washington Post , Brexit would create a break among its trade-dependent partners, including Ireland. Without a successor agreement in place, financial costs could lead to supply chain meltdown and even threaten the state of the EU, not to mention omnichannel supply chains.

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What Supply Chains Can Learn From Switzerland

RFgen

The Importance of Supply Chain Resilience. For the past three years, the insurance company FM Global has been ranking countries based on their resilience to supply chain disruptions. 1 spot for its companies’ powerful ability to rebound from supply chain disruptions. Germany.