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Boeing and One Airline’s CEOs Shares Candid Perspectives on the State of Commercial Aircraft Supply Chains

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights for our readers an on-stage conversation held between the CEO ’s of Boeing and Qatar Airways at Bloomberg’s Qatar Economic Forum. Boeing CEO David Calhoun shared direct views of the state of this industry’s supply networks. Akbar Al-Baker (video recording).

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4 reasons not to miss the Quintiq World Tour

DELMIA Quintiq

It’s great to hear about new [disruptive] technologies, do some benchmarking and understand how companies have executed these technologies. Attended jam-packed supply chain events only to leave with stacks of brochures and notes that you can’t put into practice? How much control do you have over your supply chain?

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech- June 14 2022

Supply Chain Matters

In this regular edition of our featured column, Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Management Technology , we provide a capsule synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based multi-industry supply chain readership.

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Boeing Lands Significant 787 Dreamliner Aircraft Deal

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights this week’s commercial aircraft industry news that Boeing has landed a significant new order for 787 Dreamliner wide body aircraft. Significant New Order Received Commercial aircraft designer and manufacturer Boeing announced another significant aircraft deal this week. At the same time, the U.S.

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Airbus Acknowledges Supply Network Constraints Impacting Wide Body Production

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights a published report where an Airbus senior executive acknowledged that supply network constraints indeed exist for both wide body and single aisle aircraft. Airbus Adds its Warning A published report from Bloomberg this week adds to the state of this industry’s supply networks.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

I thought I understood all the major supply chain implications of the pandemic until I began reading Yossi Sheffi’s new book The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy beyond Covid-19. The potential supply chain impacts of this conflict dwarf any other supply chain news that might be reported.

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Freightos is going public…and how we got here

Freightos

We passed this cost on to the lighting fixture manufacturers, who no doubt passed on these costs to the consumers. We ingested tens of thousands of Excel sheets with static carrier rates into a database and built sophisticated technology to automate routing and pricing. Between 2012 and 2019 we made the most of what we had.