Boeing and One Airline’s CEOs Shares Candid Perspectives on the State of Commercial Aircraft Supply Chains
Supply Chain Matters highlights an on-stage conversation held between the CEO’s of Boeing and Qatar Airways at Bloomberg’s Qatar Economic Forum. Boeing CEO David Calhoun shared direct views of the state of this industry’s supply networks.
by Bob Ferrari 
German Economy and Manufacturing Activity Now Reflect Recession
The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights this week’s reports that the German economy has officially slid into recession, and along with that, ongoing manufacturing recessionary conditions as-well.
by Bob Ferrari 
Ford Motor Moves Deeper Into Supply Network Vertical Integration
This week Ford Motor Company in conjunction with a two-day investor event, announced strategic commodity supply deals with four suppliers, two of which are the globe’s largest producers of lithium, a critical strategic commodity for electric-vehicle production needs. From our lens, these deals represent examples of both supply network vertical integration along with supply network resiliency moves.
by Bob Ferrari 
U.S. Freight Logistics Industry Recession Continues with Some Hopeful Signs
Supply Chain Matters highlights continued evidence that the U.S. freight and logistics industry continues to mitigate recessionary conditions including the April 2023 Logistics Manager Index reaching its lowest level lowest level in six years and one-half years. That stated, there are some new signs of optimism.
by Bob Ferrari 
Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- May 12 2023
The Supply Chain Matters blog features our May 12, 2023 edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech, a synopsis capsule of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news. Names included in this edition include: Livent, Allkem, DHL Supply Chain, Pando, PreAct Technologies, Resilinc, Prewave.
by Bob Ferrari 
Upcoming Appearance For Founder and Managing Director Bob Ferrari
The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group wishes to advise our clients and Supply Chain Matters blog global readership of an upcoming appearance by Bob Ferrari, Founder and Managing Director.
by Bob Ferrari 
Survey Says Supply Chain Management Job Satisfaction Levels Remains High
The Supply Chain Matters blog provides highlights of the ASCM 2023 Salary and Career Report released this week which depicts responses depicting high job satisfaction and compensation levels. In the area of increasing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the responses indicate some narrowing of gaps but added efforts needed.Â
by Bob Ferrari 
Declared End to the Covid-19 Pandemic- The Supply Chain Learning
Supply Chain Matters highlights the formal declared end to the Covid-19 pandemic along with commenting on the industry supply chain learning that has emerged.
by Bob Ferrari
Global Production and Supply Chain Activity Levels Unchanged in April 2023
Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of April 2023 reported global and regional PMI indices which continue to reinforce a state of contraction level stabilization within global supply chain networks. Some good news is that the reported data reinforces that global supply chain wide pressures have eased considerably.
by Bob Ferrari 
Added Developments and Clarity to Boeing 737 MAX Production Pause
Supply Chain Matters provides an update to the announced production pause of certain models of Boeing 737 MAX family aircraft as a result of a discovered manufacturing process issue.
by Bob Ferrari
BMW Building and Fostering a More Resilient and Agile Supply Chain
In our focus on supply chain strategy and business process transformation, Supply Chain Matters would like to call our reader’s attention to statements from the CEO of BMW regarding supply chain strategy.
by Bob Ferrari 
Tesla’s Q1-2023 Financial Performance- More Signs of an Audacious Business Strategy
Tesla reported Q1-2023 financial performance that more than ever reinforces an ongoing strategy of fueling sales and output growth over profitability. Such a strategy has continued supply chain, production and new product introduction implications in the quarters to come.
by Bob Ferrari 
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