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20 Years of Outsourcing Come Back to Haunt Boeing

Logistics Viewpoints

Alaska Airlines Door Blows Out in Flight For 20 years, Boeing has engaged in collaborative product development with a significant number of suppliers. The outsourced R&D, in turn, supported outsourced manufacturing with over 50 key suppliers.

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Boeing 737 MAX 9 Door Plug Incident- Latest Update

Supply Chain Matters

Background As highlighted in our original commentary , in early January, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft flying at 16,000 feet experienced a main cabin decompression as a result of a rear exit fuselage door plug blowing out. Alaska itself is indicating the need for a $150 million added charge related to the disruption.

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Boeing Reaches Agreement to Acquire Spirit AeroSystems

Supply Chain Matters

The near catastrophic blowout of the rear panel door of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft in January has been the prime catalyst of the ongoing Boeing quality crisis and the focus on the U.S. plane maker’s lack of quality management practices.

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Supplier Diversity at P&G: A Core Part of the Business Strategy

Supply Chain View from the Field

Sealaska was producing the plastic caps for Liquid Tide, and Andy’s first thought was “well, we can surely finding someone who is more responsive and agile for our needs than a diverse supplier in Alaska!” Rick will be presenting at our upcoming SCRC meeting on December 7-8, 2015.

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Boeing’s Production Quality Crisis Significantly Escalates

Supply Chain Matters

Representatives for Boeing, American, United, Alaska have reportedly either had no comment or have not immediately responded to press inquiries. In its reporting, Bloomberg indicated that Kellner, a former airline CEO , initiated this outreach effort at preliminary conversations at a recent trade group conference.

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Update on Boeing 737 MAX Fuselage Door Plug Incident

Supply Chain Matters

As highlighted in our original commentary , an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft flying at 16,000 feet experienced a main cabin decompression as a result of a rear exit fuselage door plug blowing out. That has implications for Alaska, United and Copa airlines, the noted operators of this MAX variant.

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Boeing’s Financial Performance- External Pressures Increase

Supply Chain Matters

Management Commentary As we have noted in prior updates, the latest being last week , the incident of a near catastrophic blowout of an Alaska Airlines newly delivered Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft has triggered a series of new events hat have added more scrutiny to Boeing ’s production and quality control processes.

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