Boeing is one of the United States' largest exporters and is a predominant aerospace and defense corporation. Boeing is the world's largest global aircraft manufacturer (by deliveries and revenue), and the second-largest defense and aerospace contractor (ranking in Defense News). The history of Boeing is as exciting as any in history, and encompasses thousands of individuals, innovations, and spectacular technological developments in airline design and manufacturing. Of course, most everyone

In conjunction with the PMO organizational structure, there are contract management process workflows that ensure airlines meet the specifications of customers. This is comparable to the engineer-to-order set of processes at Airbus yet more quickly executed to customers' specific requirements (Berman, 2004). This product development process concentrates on the PMO also coordinating next -- generation product strategies as well, with Boeing choosing energy efficiency over larger, more expensive yet

2.0 Strategic Situation Analysis In order to understand the nature of aircraft manufacture at Boeing, it is important to have a clear vision of how outsourcing plays into the manufacture of aircraft. Let us use the example of Boeing's Dreamliner. The following illustration explains how outsourcing plays a key role in Boeing's business strategy. These represent TIER 1 suppliers. Figure 1. Source http://seekingalpha.com/article/17727-boeing-s-outsourcing-for-the-787-dreamliner From here, the parts go to the plant in Everett and

Airbus is currently implementing new logistics processes that it expects to cut costs by 20%. Part of this is because Airbus has been flying parts for planes to central locations to facilitate assembly. However, it is perhaps more important that this increases inventory turnover; because like all airplane manufacturers, Airbus has a backlog: if this backlog is eliminated or lessened by more expedient manufacturing, Airbus produces at a faster rate