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Boeing Company
What aspects of Boeing's supplier relations program specifically address reduce inventories; maintain quality, regulatory compliance, and competitiveness? How planning and scheduling, ordering, and logistics come into play when running with minimal amounts of inventory.
The relations of Boeing are quite expansive and address all notable concerns of a big business. For it to reduce inventories through its supply chain relations program, Boeing has put in place guidelines and procurement policies, which act as a framework and applied in order to help govern all necessary purchases. Purchasing material of the right quality, quantity, at the right time, at the right price from the right source is one of the organizations overarching procurement tenets. To add to the inventory controls instituted by prudent supply management, Boeing is also known for their incorporation of leaned principles and techniques, which help to maximize efficiency while improving quality and overall safety (Sell, 2005). For maintenance and assurance of Boeing's suppliers, the organization developed...
The document gives an outline of the expectations Boeing has of suppliers and denotes the contents as being applicable by contractual agreement between Boeing's supply chain management and the suppliers.
Some businesses are forming efficient consumer response in order to move focus from monitoring costs involved in logistics to controlling supply chains. Customer service is increasingly becoming a key competitive factor as organizations are focusing on the creation of value for the end consumer. In this business atmosphere, inventory is held for two main purposes: reducing costs and improving customer service. Firms have varied motivation as they seek to strike a balance between the problem of too little inventory vs. too much inventory. Firms are aware that too much inventory leads to high costs while too little inventory leads to low sales (Sell, 2005).
A common experience and perception is that managing supply chains results in cost saving through reducing inventory. As…
References
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Yenne, B. (2005). The Story of the Boeing Company. Michigan: Zenith Imprint
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