Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Manufacturing Employment Impacts Across Europe and the United Kingdom , a significant period of production contraction has led to added manufacturing job losses. According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal , that level of worker labor activism was nearly eight times the number of workers involved in 2021.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 8, 2024

Boeing Acts Swiftly According to reporting from Bloomberg , Boeing CEO David Calhoun immediately cancelled a planned annual senior leadership retreat which was scheduled to begin today, and has since summoned company employees to an all-hands meeting to be webcast on Tuesday from the company’s 737 production facility in Seattle.

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Bristlecone

JANUARY 19, 2021

Ensuring my order would be included in the earliest shipment that the distributor was planning to make from Seattle to the Oakland warehouse. Their immediate need in the first phase of the pandemic was proactive insights that would allow them to secure supply. to improve forecast accuracy.

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MIT Supply Chain

JUNE 21, 2021

Lumber and microprocessors are two of the long list of product categories in short supply, causing major supply chain disruptions. There are various reasons for the scarcities, but pandemic-related disruptions to supply and demand are at the core of the problem.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 6, 2022

Predicting demand was never easy (with or without an astrologer), and, looking ahead, the challenges of global supply chain disruptions continue in 2022. Tip : Unlock the Planner’s Playbook to Supply Chain Disruption and get more tactics to successfully manage your supply chain in 2022.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic followed by supply chain disruptions around the world has sparked a resurgence of companies bringing sourcing and manufacturing back to the United States or closer to U.S. These factors have encouraged manufacturers to move closer to the source of consumption — the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 18, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights Airbus and Boeing Q1-2023 commercial aircraft delivery and net orders performance. While Boeing outpaced in quarterly aircraft deliveries, a reported component manufacturing issue does not bode well for meeting full year aircraft delivery objectives.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 7, 2022

In a prior Supply Chain Matters blog commentary, we highlighted that commercial aircraft manufacturer Airbus has made plans to once again rapidly ramp-up monthly production levels for the company’s popular Airbus A320 single aisle aircraft family. FAA sign-off on added engineering, manufacturing and quality process fixes.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 16, 2023

European and global based commercial aircraft manufacturer Airbus SE reported a total of 661 commercial aircraft delivered to a total of 84 airline or leasing companies during 2022. Both of these manufacturers will be reporting both Q4 and total 2022 financial performance over the coming weeks. Additional Thoughts.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 6, 2023

Bloomberg reported similar disruptions observed in ports in Tacoma and Seattle. End to end logistics visibility technology provider projet44 provided Supply Chain Matters the below chart depicting median import and export dwell times for the Port of Los Angeles that depicts the actual daily impacts.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Published reports indicate that the effects on this Seattle based company’s operations are widespread. Industries served by Expeditors i nclude aerospace, automotive, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, among others. The company, with upwards of $16 billion in annual revenues, and upwards of 18,000 global employees within 100 countries.

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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This year’s supply chain pressures have had ripple effects throughout the economy that are hurting US retailers and manufacturers. In an announcement that cut its stock by a fifth, the retailer Bed Bath & Beyond called the supply chain challenges it faced “unprecedented”. The stakes are high.

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