Product Scheduling and Forecasting
Boeing Winnipeg uses Material Requirements Planning (MRP) to meet customer demand. MRP examines customer requirements and drives out what resources we'll need to meet those requirements. MRP uses airplane rates (customer demand) and takes supplier lead times, the Bill of Materials, Purchase Orders and Manufacturing Orders into account to drive out supplier requirements. The MRP system works backward from our customer's on dock date to determine when to release a work order to our factory or a purchase order to a supplier.
Discrete forecasts by part number for an 18 month look-ahead are available by contacting your SM & P Scheduling representative.
External Load Centres
An External Load Centre (ELC) uses lean manufacturing concepts to remove wasteful activity from the supply chain. In a nutshell, the ELC concept leverages communication between supplier and customer to regularly replenish goods based on consumption. The ELC concept reduces cost by:
- Helping suppliers more accurately forecast demand
- Helping suppliers to accurately prioritize machinery and equipment capacity to meet customer demand
- Reducing part count through "kitting"
- Reducing inventory and buffer stock through stabilized forecasting
- Increasing inventory turns
- Reducing administration
Several of Boeing Winnipeg's supplier partners are External Load Centres. They are:
- Aerospace Manufacturing Technologies Inc. (AMT)
- Centra Industries Inc.
- Hi-Temp Insulation Inc.
- Avcorp Industries Inc.
- Avior Industries
- Composites Atlantic
- Hexcel Corporation
- Arnprior Aerospace Inc.
- Boeing Auburn Emergent Manufacturing Facility
- Cascade Gasket