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20 Years of Outsourcing Come Back to Haunt Boeing

Logistics Viewpoints

The Dreamliner program was launched in April of 2004 with an order for 50 aircraft from All Nippon Airways. Instead of developing the aircraft in-house and sourcing parts from suppliers,” Dr. Tang explained, “Boeing decided to outsource 70% of the design, engineering and manufacturing of entire modules to over 50 strategic partners.”

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together. There are no value network solutions in the market to enable plan/source/make and deliver visibility holistically. Reflection. To illustrate the point, let me share a story.

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7 Rules of Fashion Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Opz

In 2004, Kasra Ferdows, Michael A. 5) Keep production in-house : Zara tries to stay away from low-cost country sourcing and make an investment in the in-house manufacturing as much as possible. Lewis, and Jose A.D. Machuca published the article on Harvard Business Review named " Rapid-Fire Fulfillment ".

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Inventory Management: We Can Do Better

Supply Chain Shaman

In Table 1, I share research collected for the Supply Chains to Admire analysis on the average days of inventory by industry across the period of 2004 to 2019 by increments to match economic shifts. The source of this data is a syndicated data provider of public reporting termed “Y-Charts.”). ”).

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Logility Buys Halo BI

Supply Chain Shaman

A significant source of revenue for the company is maintenance renewals. Prior acquisitions include: Demand Management, (often termed Demand Solutions) supply chain planning for mid-market, 2004 for $9.5M The American Software company in 2016 invested 9.9% On a Gross R&D spend rate this is 12.9%.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

I have worked with this client since 2004. Comprehensive view of source, make and deliver. Most often the focus is on transportation or logistics, but does not take into consideration the trade-offs between make, source and deliver. Focus is on make, source and deliver together. At that time, they planned on spreadsheets.

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The first definition of Demand-driven Supply Chains was pushed into the market by AMR Research (now part of the Gartner Group) in 2004. Cloud-based analytics for sourcing and the management of supplier networks are evolving and should be embraced. The acronyms keep coming….