...Executive summary Boeing was founded in 1916 in Seattle, Washington and became one of the World’s largest and leading manufacturers in making commercial and military aircrafts. The company has been involved in acquiring international firms and making strategic alliances with many aerospace pioneers in the past. Some of the big acquired and merged aerospace companies are Hughes Space and Communications, North American Aviation, McDonnell Douglas, Rockwell International and Jappesen (Boeing, 2012). The purpose of this report is twofold and accordingly the report is divided into two parts. The first part consists of a critical evaluation of the internal and external business environments of Boeing to find out to at what extent Boeing is strategically fit with its current business environment. In the second part, an improvement strategy will be recommended to the company to effectively manage its supply chain practices after critically reviewing the feasibility, acceptability and suitability of the strategy. Contents Executive summary 1 Introduction to Boeing 787 Dreamliner 3 (PART A) 4 S.W.O.T analysis of Boeing 787 Dreamliner 4 Strengths: 4 Weaknesses: 5 Opportunities: 6 Threats: 6 Boeing 787 Dreamliner competitiveness 7 Business model of Boeing Dreamliner 787 9 B787 SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT: 9 MANUFACTURING/QUALITY: 9 Design and features of Boeing 787 Dreamliner: 10 Strategic alliance of Boeing 787 Dreamliner 12 Challenges posed by the business...
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...CASE STUDY Boeing 787: Global Supply Chain Management Takes Flight Leveraging Global Partners to Maximize Customer Value Company Profile World’s leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined Goal Leverage global partners to reduce cost, speed time-to-market, and increase customer value while maintaining the highest level of safety Challenge How to maintain visibility and control while transitioning from a vertically integrated manufacturing model to a global partner model that leverages providers of best value components and technology Solution Exostar’s Supply Chain Management Solution powered by E2open software to provide end-to-end management of the order, inventory, and planning processes executed across multiple tiers of supply partners Expected Results Eliminate latency in communicating demand /supply changes and change impacts across partner tiers Ensure continuity of supply while minimizing supply disruptions Improved on-time delivery and ship-tocommit date with end customer Provide global visibility to all partners involved in the delivery of the completed assemblies Reduce total manufacturing cost by leveraging best price and value partners globally The new Boeing super-efficient jet liner is the 787 Dreamliner. Scheduled for delivery beginning in 2008, the Dreamliner provides passengers with a better flying experience and operators with a...
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...October 17, 2011 Planning Function of Management Boeing Corporation is a massive and complicated company, which requires management planning. Boeing is a leading maker of high-end aircraft for commercial, military, satellites, and missiles. These aircraft are necessary to carry cargo and passengers. Boeing is a global company that serves customers all over the world. There are strict regulations for companies such as Boeing due to the safety and performance concerns with air travel. Because of strict regulations Boeing has to conduct extensive planning so they can operate efficiently. For Boeing business planning is a very complicated process that is influenced by many internal and external factors. Boeing has remained successful over the years because of their strong ethics and planning abilities. Boeings planning function of management is the process of setting goals and objectives for the company to achieve over a set period of time. It is vital to the success of Boeing’s plans to include activities and tasks that upon completion will ensure they reach their goals. It is also necessary to take into account variables and unexpected occurrences that may hinder goals. For Boeing it is vital for each major department to use this method of planning. Boeing is still successfully efficient because they set goals in each major departments such as: sales, engineering, product testing, and all other departments. For every goal Boeing has a set of guidelines that explain how the goal...
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...Policy………………………………………………………………………………...…5 Recommended Solutions 9 Hardware Solution……………………………………………………………………10 Software / policy Solution 10 Budget…...…………………………………………………………………………….11 Summary………………………………………………………………………………...11 References……………………………………………………………………………….12 Executive Summary Over the past 50 years, Boeing Aerospace Consulting (BAC) has dominated the Aerospace industry. Focusing more on client’s solution compromised BAC technology infrastructure. New technology inventions are frequently in the process of being developed, hackers formulate new ways to perform malicious attacks and fraud to take advantage of small and large companies. Today society has evolved in many ways, from the Roman Empire with modern electronic communication. Technologies, from those who discover the handiness, influence our lives with convenience, life, and many time horrible unforgiving acts. Maintaining security should always be the scope of a company priority. With those mental imperative in mind Boeing Aerospace Consulting (BAC) will focus to formulate solution for the growing Cyber, and other vulnerability attacks security policies have lacked within the company. Company Overview Boeing Airspace Consulting (BAC) is an entrepreneur in the Aero Space arena. The company is globally renowned as a major influential leader in Aerospace design fabrication of components and services. Many of these services support electronics, commercial, defense and aerospace industry. With highly trained...
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...Management Planning Paper Whitney Allen Axia College Management planning is an essential task for a company as massive and complicated as Boeing Corporation. The company operates on a global level and it’s provides products to customers around the world. They produce high end aircraft for both commercial and military organizations. The products manufactured are primarily needed to carry passengers, carry cargo, and perform military operations. Aircraft used for these purposes are strictly regulated due to safety and performance concerns. In the United States, Boeing aircraft are regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA. With all these factors in mind, Boeing is required to conduct extensive planning in order to operate an efficient business. Management planning plays a large role in the success of the company and is used at all levels of the corporation’s structure. The planning function of management is the process of setting goal and objectives for an organization to achieve over a set period of time. A plan will include activities and tasks that need to be completed in order to reach the ultimate goal. Good plans will also take into account variables and unexpected occurrences. By planning for the unexpected an organization can avoid the chaos that is associated with unforeseen challenges or problems. In the case of Boeing, planning is vital within all of its major departments. The company remains efficient by setting goals within its engineering department...
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...| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------- Dynamics of Strategy * Evaluation of external business environment of Boeing * A critical assessment of the strategic resource capability (strategic fit) * Provide detailed recommendations after assessment of the feasibility, acceptability and suitability of Boeing * A detailed implementation plan NOTE: SEE APPENDICES FOR DETAILED ANALYSISFor Assignment or Dissertation Help, Please Contact: | Muhammad Sajid Saeed+44 141 4161015Email: tosajidsaeed@hotmail.comSkype ID: tosajidsaeed | | TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03 2. VISION, MISSION, GOALS, AND OBJECTIVES ----------------------------------------------- 03 3. STRATEGIC ANALYSIS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 04 3.1 INTERNAL ANALYSIS -------------------------------------------------------------------- 04 3.1.1 RESOURCE-BASED VIEW ---------------------------------------------------- 04 3.1.2 VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS ----------------------------------------------------- 06 3.1.3 FINANCIAL ANALYSIS --------------------------------------------------------- 07 3.2 EXTERNAL ANALYSIS -------------------------------------------------------------------- 08 3.2.1 PEST ANALYSIS ---------------------------------------------------------------- 08 3.2.2 PORTER’S FIVE FORCES...
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...uploaded? Give us your contact info and we’ll get back soon with details. — Ashish Michael First Name *[pic]Last Name *[pic]Work Email *[pic]Phone *[pic] Address *[pic]City *[pic]Zip code *[pic]State *[pic]Country *[pic]Message[pic][pic][pic] [pic][pic]Cancel Bottom of Form Sending [pic] Your info has been sent to Ashish Michael. Loading [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] ‹› [pic]Case analysis boeing 787Document Transcript 1. ASHISH JUDE MICHAEL What went wrong? Boeing 787: Dreamliner A detailed analysis of issues causing delay of Boeing 787 and suggesting a model which would had prevented these issues. (This case analysis is only for academic purpose) P G P E x 2 0 1 2 -‐ 1 3 I I M S h i l l o n g Boeing 787:Case Analysis 2. 2 Boeing 787:Case Analysis Introduction (Extract from Case): In April 2008, Boeing confirmed a delay in the 787-‐airplane...
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...Boeing’s Final Marketing Plan 1 Boeing’s Final Marketing Plan Silva B. Adeniyi Marketing Planning & Strategy – B6026 Professor Victor A. Oladapo August 15, 2011 Boeing’s Final Marketing Plan 2 Boeing’s Final Marketing Plan Executive Summary The executive summary is to give the reader an overview of the main points in the marketing plan (Rossiter, 2011). The Boeing Company, established by William Boeing, during World War 1 era. Navy Lieutenant Conrad Westervelt and Boeing became friend’s after watching the 1910 air races at Belmont Park, New York. On July 4, 1914. Boeing enrolled in Glenn Martin’s flying school and bought a plan of his own. A former shipyard was the first home of The Boeing Company, which was founded in 1916 in Seattle, Washington (Rumerman, n.d.). Today Boeing’s headquarters is in Chicago, IL. It is the commercial airplanes leading manufacturer and largest aerospace company in the world. There are two major divisions at Boeing: Defense, Space, and Security and Commercial Airplanes. A minor division at Boeing is Capital Corporation. Boeing’s Capital Corporation makes possible the delivery and sale of Boeing services and products by providing advice on leasing and financing solutions. Recommendations * In emerging markets become a first mover by promoting new Dreamliner 787 and exploit the growing air passenger traffic in China * To avoid costly manufacturing delays, create a team able to speak several...
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...What Went Wrong At Boeing? My article, The Boeing Debacle: Seven Lessons That Every CEO Must Learn, elicited spirited conversation. Several commentators noted that, in addition to the general lessons, Boeing made specific errors in the way it handled outsourcing and offshoring. Let’s take a closer look at those specifics. Boeing enthusiastically embraced outsourcing, both locally and internationally, as a way of lowering costs and accelerating development. The approach was intended to“reduce the 787′s development time from six to four years and development cost from $10 to $6 billion.” The end result was the opposite. The project is billions of dollars over budget and three years behind schedule. “We spent a lot more money,” Jim Albaugh, Chief of Commercial Airplanes at Boeing, explained in January 2011, “in trying to recover than we ever would have spent if we’d tried to keep the key technologies closer to home.” The right goal: add value for customers Let’s start with what Boeing did right. After losing market share to Airbus (owned by EADS) in the late 1990s, Boeing could have decided to focus on reducing the costs (and the selling prices) of its existing aircraft. That would have led inexorably to corporate death. Instead Boeing decided— commendably—to innovate with a new aircraft that would generate revenues by creating value for customers. First, Boeing aimed to improve their travel experience for the ultimate customers, the passengers. As compared...
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...runway resurfacing and airport expansion are all very time critical projects that are dependent on meeting deadlines however quality can never be compromised. So we will explore how project management adds value to aviation projects regarding Safety, Profitability and Risk Management. Aviation related projects rarely come at cheap price. In fact, hundreds of millions of dollars can be invested in aviation projects. Aviation companies such as Lockheed-Martin, Northrop Grumman and Honeywell operate on huge multi-billion dollar government contracts for aviation products. The FAA even states that “This year’s forecast predicts that the industry will grow from 731 million passengers in 2011 to 1.2 billion in 2032” (Aviation Policy and Plans, 2012) It is safe to assume there will be many large scale aviation projects to deal with airport expansion, new larger cost-saving aircraft, and more efficient ATC infrastructure. The future growth in aviation expansion will lead to a shortage in expertise of managing aviation projects. A major critical success factor for any project is “The project must have...
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...Describe your personal views on global supply chain management and how you plan to be a part of the field. In today’s global economy companies can no longer compete if they don’t establish collaborative relationships that expand beyond their own organization. In my opinion, Global Supply Chain Management has become increasingly important as companies look for growth opportunities in other countries as a way of increasing their global presence. It is my understanding that in order for countries to do global trade, they need to have attractive fiscal and monetary policy in order to attract foreign direct investment. Most developing countries have recovered from the economic crisis and are growing at the fastest pace they can sustain without increasing inflation. Foreign governments have a big responsibility if they want to create business opportunities for multinational companies. It is their duty to give a lot of thought to how they would respond to global tightening. That’s why I think that by improving the long-term trade outlook and coming up with acceptable reform agendas can certainly go a long way when the emerging economies are trying to boost investor and market confidence. Companies such as Boeing, Pepsi, and Oracle are a few companies who are utilizing a vertical integration approach when trying to manage materials, manufacturing, and distribution. One way to view this opinion is whenever a company deals with a supplier that helps provide the next phase of the supply...
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...Application 19 October 2009 The Aerospace Corporation known as Boeing has a tarnished reputation because of continued charges of unethical conduct, and fraudulent claims during “Go Green” commercials. However, this corporation is starting to resemble a phoenix rising from the ashes under the leadership of the new CEO Harry Stonecipher. Boeings corporate social responsibility and ethics have historically varied from good to bad to now worse, with the resignation of Philip M. Condit. Mr. Condit; as Boeing CEO was charged with unethically recruiting employees from the defense sector, while they were still employed with the federal government. He allegedly used there contacts inside the state department to win multi-billion dollar contracts, she is also charged with inflating the price of said defense contracts. Darleen Druyun pleaded guilty to boosting the price of the defense contract to gain favor for her future employer. 2004, Ms. Druyun was awarded nine months of jail time for her part in the scandal. On top of jail time she was fined $5,000, and sentenced to three years of supervised release. In 2003 Lockheed Martin sued Boeing; charging them with industrial espionage stating the company had stolen proprietary information to win another defense contract. The Boeing Company was fined by the U. S. Air Force, for conducting industrial espionage. Misleading “green’ commercials have also contributed to Boeings unethical, and lack there of corporate social responsibility. ...
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...Case 2 – Boeing's e-Enabled Advantage 1. What challenges and opportunities did Boeing face in the late 1990s? * Challenges * Production inefficiencies * Mature market * Needed to find ways to generate revenue other than airplane sales * Economic downturn and contingency plans * Competition from Airbus that was being subsidized by the govt. * Opportunities * Acquisition of Rockwell and merger with McDonnell Douglas. * Lean manufacturing helped Boeing “greatly reduced out-of-sequence work and parts shortages.” * New technology on 737 that was too advanced for customers. 2. What is the e-Enabled Advantage? How did it link to the company’s strategy? * e-Enabled Advantage is an IT service that Boeing can place into aircrafts that will help airlines collect and analyze data surrounding the aircraft’s maintenance, flight operations, and passenger needs. * Designed to “help airlines cut costs, improve dispatch reliability, reduce delays and cancellations, improve passenger service, enhance aviation security, and provide real-time situational awareness…” (Pg. 199). * Service, not a tangible product. (Pg. 199). * Allows the aircraft to be integrated with airline ground systems. * “…it’s a factory that is ‘unplugged’ from the airline while flying…depriving airlines of valuable information and data that could be used to improve efficiency and safety.” (Pg. 201). * Company’s...
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...When Boeing was bidding for this project they didn’t fully integrate managing the baselines for business, budget, and technical. Ultimately the scope of the project was something that never had been attempted and required new technologies to be integrated across a wide area of land. The requirements for all of these components to work together would be a true technical challenge. Commercial components that are proven cannot be integrated right out of the box. These components have to be tested in the field without interference design, thorough testing, and integration in the laboratory. Boeing underestimated the integration of the off-the-shelf systems (Congress, 2008). They didn’t fully test the first operational configuration of the SBInet prior to field trials. They also had issues between the sensors and the common operating picture (COP). These were important to the technical characters of the sensors...
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...10/07/14 Total Word Count: 4193 Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction to the Report 3 2.0 Introduction to Airbus 3 3.0 Introduction to Boeing 5 4.0 Analysis of Financial Management 6 5.0 A comparative analysis of Airbus and Boeing 7 5.1 Airbus Group 7 5.2 Boeing 11 6.0 Examination of Key Stakeholders and Information Disclosure 14 6.1 Customers 15 6.2 Suppliers 16 6.3 Employees 16 6.4 Shareholders 17 7.0 Way Forward 18 8.0 References & Bibliography 19 1.0 Introduction to the Report This Consultant’s report has been compiled based on information gathered from the annual reports and financial statements of The Boeing Company and the Airbus Group (formerly EADS) for the year 2012. While analyzing the level of disclosure of both companies, this report aims to shed light on industry standards and critically examine whether the needs of key stakeholder groups have been sufficiently addressed in the chosen annual reports. Further suggestions for the improvement of these reports are also made in order to increase benefits for named stakeholders. As the complexity of business and capital markets increase, companies are required to manage risk and uncertainty in order to satisfy stakeholder needs. The role of transparent and clear financial reporting disclosure has heightened importance in the present...
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