One of the main reasons that Boeing has had the problems is the way they conceived how they were going to build the plane to begin with.
Why in the Hell would you want to have different locations laid out all over the world planning and designing, then try and assemble the plane the same way?
It would have made more sense and cost less money to have had the whole operation in one place and to communicate in one language.
Whatever person or persons thought up this Logistics Nightmare should be fired.
The distributed and outsourced supply chain is not the problem. Look at Airbus they do it this way since 40 years. Boeing simply tried to copy but failed, because they missed the most important point: “You can outsource manufacturing and assembly but you never ever outsource engineering.”
“Why in the Hell would you want to have different locations laid out all over the world planning and designing, then try and assemble the plane the same way?”
Reminds me of the Tower of Babel!!
BTW - I think part of the reason was cost (to avoid our high union labor wages), and also to get promises of orders from the countries that they subbed things out to.
That is standard procedure for the last few years among the high level MBA crowd.
Those of us who have to actually build things call it insanity.