Real face of late deliveries
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Working in supply chain we all know the importance of getting suppliers to deliver on time.
This article over at ft.com brings it home with the wonderful picture of Airbus A320 awaiting engines to be fitted.
I love the quote in the article
“In the old supply chain, not just in France but everywhere, we worked like artisans,” he says. “Now we have to become a manufacturing industry, with automation, robotics and standardisation.”
On time delivery is one of those KPI’s that we learn about early on in working within procurement and it’s still important as it ever was.
Also of interest is the line
Increased volumes of orders and price pressures are beginning to deliver an overdue modernisation of supply chain in the sector
Many of these aerospace companies are huge organisations with relatively long order books. To get a piece of the pie suppliers will not only need to be technically competent but increasingly adept at meeting cost and delivery points in an ever increasing cut-throat market. Quoting the article you don’t want to be the supplier holding up a billion dollar assembly line for a missing component do you?
It’s a good article – go check it out by clicking the link above.