Services for Aerospace and Defense Suppliers
1. Supplier Marketing and Sales Consulting: We have developed a “process based” system for attracting and winning your “perfect prospect”. With decades of experience, automated record keeping, and our proprietary database of the top sourcing and supply chain executives in the industry we are not only experts at increasing your exposure and leveraging your competitive advantage, but also succeed in “win rates” as high as 80%.
2. Performance Improvement- We provide breakthrough performance improvement using the tools of lean, process improvement, six sigma, and years of experience. It is common for these improvements to produce 20-40% profit improvements. This could involve the following tools and projects:
- workforce development and certification
- 5S
- Andon
- Bottleneck Analysis
- Continuous Flow
- Gemba (The Real Place)
- Heijunka (Level Scheduling)
- Hoshin Kanri (Policy Deployment)
- Jidoka (Autonomation)
- Just-In-Time (JIT)
- Kaizen (Continuous Improvement)
- Kanban (Pull System)
- KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)
- Muda (Waste)
- Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
- PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act)
- Poka-Yoke (Error Proofing)
- Root Cause Analysis
- Single-Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED)
- Six Big Losses
- SMART Goals
- Standardized Work
- Takt Time
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
- Value Stream Mapping
- Visual Factory
OEM Services for Aerospace and Defense
Supply Chain Consulting
Providing overall supply chain services focused on sourcing spend improvements. This could entail strategic sourcing, supplier rationalization, supplier scouting and qualification, supply chain performance, predictive performance analysis and various assessments. We also can assist with supplier reshoring, rehabilitation and managing supplier performance improvements.
