Now that data is mostly out there, in the cloud, it seems easy to imagine that it’s “clean.” Time to think again.

A rough start to the year for Boeing has only gotten worse as the company continues to hit hurdles.

DOJ investigators have reportedly begun reaching out to passengers and crew aboard the flight where a door plug blew out in January.

The changes, which were communicated at an all-employee meeting on March 7, come two months after a near-disaster on a new Boeing 737 Max operated by Alaska Airlines.

The incident is the latest involving Boeing’s top-selling jetliner, which was grounded worldwide in 2019 following the second of two fatal crashes that killed 346 people.

The accusation is that no documents exist at Boeing to explain how the airplane left its factory missing bolts that would have prevented the accident in the first place.

Supply chain sustainability might once have once seemed like a luxury: nice to have, but not a strategic imperative. Those days are over. 

Optimizing supply chain readiness and resilience will remain a top priority for the automotive industry in the coming year, as executives manage the convergence of political, economic and environmental risks.

Former Boeing division Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. is the supplier at the center of a spate of recent quality issues affecting the 737 Max airliner.

The one-two punch of geopolitical tensions and climate anomalies has put unprecedented pressure on global food supply chains.