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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. Dialogue with a Key Airline Customer This week, Bloomberg conducted the Qatar Economic Forum held in Doha. Akbar Al-Baker (video recording).

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Boeing Lands Significant 787 Dreamliner Aircraft Deal

Supply Chain Matters

The new international air carrier is to be named Riyadh Air, which is reportedly procuring 39 Boeing 787-9 aircraft, with an option for 33 more. This new airline is being formed to compete with existing Middle East based international carriers Emirates and Qatar Airways.

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A Year In Events: Looking Back At 2016 (US Edition)

EcoVadis

From California to Connecticut, and Novi to New Orleans, EcoVadis was on the ground contributing to the advancement of sustainable procurement and CSR/sustainability practices in global supply chains during our most active year on record in the US. Ethical Sourcing Forum (New York, NY). AIAG Corporate Responsibility Summit (Novi, MI).

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech- June 14 2022

Supply Chain Matters

San Francisco -based Onera provides retail technology that connects inventory across siloed systems and transforms them into a single, real-time source of inventory status. Real-time inventory availability is reportedly provided by tracking inventory across the supply chain and intelligently exposing inventory to any fulfillment channel.

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Airbus Acknowledges Supply Network Constraints Impacting Wide Body Production

Supply Chain Matters

This procurement further includes the aircraft being powered by General Electric engines, which is another boost to GE’s order backlog. In late May, we called reader attention on an on-stage conversation among Boeing CEO David Calhoun and Qatar Airways Group CEO H.E. Akbar Al-Baker (video recording).

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Freightos is going public…and how we got here

Freightos

At the same time one of our key strategic airline partners, Qatar Airways, is doubling down and investing in the transaction too. Thanks to our investors led by Aleph, More VC, Annox Capital, Qatar Airways, SGX, FedEx, MSR, OurCrowd, Sadara, Portline, Master Toys, and Gold Lion Ventures, for their support and patience.

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New: Global Trade Map 2016

Supply Chain Movement

Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) are designed to boost economic growth through trade by opening markets by way of progressive removal of customs duties, eliminating or reducing trade barriers and tariffs, lifting restrictions on services and even through public procurement. Northern Mariana Islands.