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20 Years of Outsourcing Come Back to Haunt Boeing

Logistics Viewpoints

Boeing is now a case study in how not to outsource a supply chain. The Dreamliner program was launched in April of 2004 with an order for 50 aircraft from All Nippon Airways. Recent investigations have revealed serious production control problems within Boeing’s supply chain operations.

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10 Books Logistics And Supply Chain Experts Need To Read

Freightos

There are tens of thousands of books about logistics and supply chains. Amazon has 31,817 books about supply chain and 24,934 about logistics. That’s 56,751 supply chain and logistics books. But we got it down to ten logistics and supply chain books you’ll actually want to read.

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PINC named Top Supply Chain Projects for 2020 by Supply & Demand Chain Executive

PINC

The SDCE 100 spotlights successful and innovative projects that deliver bottom-line value to small, medium and large enterprises across the range of supply chain functions. These projects can serve as a map for supply chain executives looking for new opportunities to drive improvement in their own operations.

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PINC Receives 2020 Supply & Demand Chain Executive Green Supply Chain Award

PINC

15, 2020 — Supply & Demand Chain Executive, the only magazine in the supply chain industry covering the entire global supply chain, has selected PINC, the leader in digital yard solutions, as a recipient of the SDCE Green Supply Chain Award for 2020. UNION CITY, Calif. , Dec.

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Top 10 Brands Millennials, Gen Z Trust

Material Handling and Logistics

A study by Wharton Business School found that this group is mainly interested in supporting brands that are ethical, caring and strive to do the right thing. a way to drive social sustainability across its business and supply chain. What makes a brand trustworthy to Millennials and Gen Z? . Printer-friendly version. Media Type.

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Toilet paper and total war – the psychology of shortages and what it means for resilience

Logistics in War

A normally stable balance of supply and demand is upset by events, with consumer behaviour in panic-buying magnifying the problem. The ‘world’ is only at the beginning of its industrial and supply-chain response to the virus. Supplying War , Cambridge University Press, UK, 2004 (4 th edition); Betts, R.,

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New DHL offering focuses on fast and flexible delivery service for online retailers

247 Customs Broker

since 2004. Jeff Berman is Group News Editor for Logistics Management , Modern Materials Handling , and Supply Chain Management Review. Jeff works and lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, where he covers all aspects of the supply chain, logistics, freight transportation, and materials handling sectors on a daily basis.