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Unfortunately, that complexity sometimes creeps into areas of the business where it’s not welcome. At aerospace leader Boeing, complexity in supply chain operations was hampering business efficiency. Employees in the Global Services & Support division of the company’s Defense, Space & Security business were running a gantlet trying to field customer requests for proposals, facilitate product support activities, and manage suppliers. Among the culprits: disconnected processes, multiple logins for disparate information systems, and a maze of internal applications from which workers had to retrieve and verify data, often in a highly manual fashion.
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Why? And what can airlines do to avoid the pitfalls that plagued their predecessors? Aviation & Aerospace in Japan Group News. Originally published February 22, 2011 at 4:05 AM | Page modified February 22, 2011 at 6:26 AM In a deal that could be worth billions of dollars and determine one of the primary fighter jets in Asia for decades to come, European aircraft makers are trying to convince Japan to do something it has never done before - snub America.
U.S. planes have long been Tokyo's overwhelming favorite, but Japan appears to be wobbling under a strong sales pitch for the Eurofighter Typhoon, coupled with problems and restrictions that have made the American alternatives less attractive. The stakes are high. The contract is expected to be worth upward of $10 billion, and the chosen plane will be the showcase aircraft for Washington's chief ally in the region at a time when both China and Russia are modernizing their air forces. Going European, some analysts say, also could complicate future U.S.
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