Doug Ackerman is the Vice President of Supplier Quality for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. He leads a global organization chartered to assure that the supply chain provides the highest quality products and services.
Before taking this role in 2020, Ackerman served as director of Engineering for BCA Supply Chain where he led engineering to resolutions of technical issues, drove continuous quality and cost improvement of supplied parts, and coordinating activities between the Engineering and Supply Chain functions.
In 2019, Ackerman led Interior Supply Chain Strategy in Supply Chain where he developed and aligned supply chain strategy for airplane interiors, including seats, across Boeing’s commercial airplane programs the Enterprise. He previously served as the 777 Airplane Level Integration chief engineer leading the Customer Engineering, Liaison Engineering and Airplane Safety, Certification and Performance organizations in airplane configuration and certification strategy, airplane performance analysis, and production issue resolution. In this role, he worked closely with key customers in resolving airplane configuration, supplier and delivery issues.