Stir Clear from the Boeing Disaster Road with Proper Supplier Management
Boeing has been in the news for a few very wrong reasons lately. And by lately, I mean for the better part of the last decade. The problems that their 787 and 737 Max faced were technological. But when you dig deeper, you can see that it is one thing to blame the technological failures but a whole another one to highlight the human and managerial errors that brought it down. The issues began with cost cutting. Boeing outsourced 70% of 787 manufacturing with a tiered outsourcing structure. With this outsourcing, the issues created were manufacturing delays due to miscommunication and sometimes lack of communication all together. During the manufacturing of the 787, the bottom most tier did not communicate the issues they were facing to the company that was assembling the plane. This caused delays in the production cycle so much that the first planes came out 3 years later than promised. The management failed to communicate how to go about the innovations w...