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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. This incident might be because of oversights in documentation and procedures at Boeing’s Renton factory in Washington.

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Limping to war

Logistics in War

– Chief of Army LTGEN Peter Leahy, 2004 [1]. adfwc/Documents/DoctrineLibrary/ADDP/ADDP_00_2_preparedness_and_mobilisation.pdf. [2] Supplying War , 2 nd edition, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2004, p 236. [7] The importance of a high-level of preparedness to a military is self-evident. 1] ADDP 00.2 3] Galvin, T.,

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How Supply Chain Strategy Misalignment is Killing Kmart USA

Logistics Bureau

The two companies switched positions in 1991, an event which heralded the start of a decade-long decline for Kmart, which ended in bankruptcy in 2002 and led to a subsequent merger with Sears in 2004. According to our own research at Logistics Bureau, less than 40% of businesses have documented a strategy for their supply chain operations.

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Trust in Turkey

Automotive Logistics

Only two of Turkey’s international ports are now state-owned after a 2004 act that allowed six of the biggest – Iskenderun, Derince, Band?rma, The FT quoted a 2015 study estimating the cost of all this border friction at around €3 billion ($3.4 rma, Izmir, Samsun and Mersin – to be privatised. . billion) a year.