Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 7, 2024

It is no exaggeration to say that the future of the 107 year-old manufacturer hangs in the balance.” The further backdrop is that Boeing’s Charleston South Carolina based production operations consists of non-union workers. The announcement from Boeing came last week.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 17, 2022

Added Manufacturing Disruption in China. Last week after a series of manufacturing and product design flaws impacted the deliveries of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner wide-body aircraft since 2020, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cleared the way to resume airline deliveries of previously ordered aircraft.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 13, 2024

It is no exaggeration to say that the future of the 107 year-old manufacturer hangs in the balance.” The company had previously decided to sole source the assembly of the 787 Dreamliner wide body aircraft to a facility in North Charleston, South Carolina , a right to work state. locations rather than Puget Sound.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In addition to cutting the need for outsourced manufacturing, this move could give the company a leg up on the competition by making it possible to get products in the hands of consumers faster. Additionally, the company’s manufacturing expertise will enable the reduction of production costs. manufacturing facility in 2014.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The storm then rapidly moved up to the coastal regions of Georgia and South Carolina , to include coastal areas that include the Ports of Savannah and Charleston. As many of our readers are aware, the coastal Guangdong region and a major hub for high tech and electronics production among other industry related manufacturing.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There are a lot of hard-headed realists in the procurement and supply chain profession. In this Q&A, Chaturvedi shares his views on rebuilding American manufacturing, reshoring, nearshoring, and other topics of the moment in supply chains. Resilinc: What’s the current status of reshoring manufacturing? That’s good news.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

states of Kentucky and South Carolina , along with Mexico. domestic manufacturing presence because of the need to both access the significant potential of the U.S. This battery maker announced initial plans in August of last year to either invest or have a direct presence in the U.S. Sites that were mentioned included the U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2022

Unresolved labor issues in the Leathermen Terminal in Charleston South Carolina and contract negotiations for 22,000 dock workers in the ports of LA and Long Beach hang heavy. To make the point, let us start with a discussion on Consumer Products manufacturing. For example, a “buy plan” for procurement.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 16, 2016

I also want to provide an overview of my model of “parallel manufacturing”, that can be utilized by US companies to take advantage of both the low cost of global manufacturing, and the threat of import tariffs. Firstly, I want to lay down some assumptions given Trump has not provided all the details in his plan.

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