Industries »Aerospace & Defence
Aerospace & Defence
Aircrafts are complex beings. A typical aircraft could use five million spare parts : both rotable and non rotable parts. Airlines are focussed on increasing market share. On the hand they face margin pressure due to emergence of low cost airlines and falling ticket prices.
Aqua MCG team of experts can help in procurement of chemicals (engine oil, cleaners, paints, dopes etc), tires, rotables needed for running and maintenance of aircrafts, forecasting, inventory classification and management, warehouse storage facility selection, JIT, safety and storage processes for hazardous items, total supply chain cost studies resulting in cost benefits and service level improvements.
Aerospace and Defence industry major focus is on building a diligent supply chain with emphasis on stringent quality control measures. With economy opening up and cost of flying becoming cheaper, the rise of the low cost carriers is ever on increase. As the capacity reaches maximum utilisation, the need to have an agile supply chain becomes more pressing. Similarly, Defence industry objective is to provide the warfare equipments at the right place and at the right time in order to successfully complete a mission, thus, a responsive supply chain, maintaining the quality of the warfare goods becomes critical.
Aerospace sector is characterized by manufacturers that not only construct aircrafts, engines, space vehicles but also provide repair and maintenance services. There has been a shift in this industry in the past years from a goods providing sector, to one that provides a complete package, including both services and goods. The Aerospace sector has traditionally incorporated Six Sigma measurement processes which are concentrated on product quality and not JIT lean manufacturing. Although
Last Updated On:9/19/2008 2:22:48 PM
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Industries »Apparel & Textile
Apparels & Textile
Supply chain of the textile industry has very distinctive processes owing to different supply sources, push and pull logistics as well as the non replenishment approaches especially for the fast fashion sector, affecting processes in the supply chain. In addition, the depth and range of assortments such as different sizes, colours and cuts of a collection requires very efficient and optimised logistics. Furthermore, time efficiency is one of the key factors for this industry to provide a competitive advantage.
In textile industry, demand changes rapidly due to fashion trends and a volatile market situation. This demand is unpredictable and could vary and change completely in a short time creating high difficulties for supply chain. To remain competitive, lean and agile supply chain is the need of the hour for the textile and apparels industry. In the era of globalisation, where point of manufacturing and point of consumption are different, supply chain poses serious challenge to the textile and apparel industry, some of which are:
Minimize forecasting error keeping in mind the ever changing consumer taste and quantities ordered
Flexible supply chain supporting continuous adjustment of product orders
Transportation system supplying goods no sooner and later than it is needed
Frequent shipment in small batches as an ongoing replenishment
Reducing manufacturing and delivery lead times
For textile and apparel sector, cycle time is the key to competitiveness of a firm as it affects both price and delivery schedule. Cycle time reduction is strongly correlated with high first pass yield, high throughput times, and low variability in process times, low WIP and consequently cost. Penetrati
Last Updated On:9/19/2008 2:40:21 PM
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